From e79110822efdc5fef27b1b24232a0655359e7df3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Kaufmann <phil.kaufmann@t-online.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:51:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] remove duplicate bitdb.Open() code from init

- remove code from step 7, which we already have in step 5 of init
---
 src/init.cpp | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index f6485c3b1dd..11b7554ed1b 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -733,15 +733,6 @@ bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup)
 
     fReindex = GetBoolArg("-reindex");
 
-    // Todo: Check if needed, because in step 5 we do the same
-    if (!bitdb.Open(GetDataDir()))
-    {
-        string msg = strprintf(_("Error initializing database environment %s!"
-                                 " To recover, BACKUP THAT DIRECTORY, then remove"
-                                 " everything from it except for wallet.dat."), strDataDir.c_str());
-        return InitError(msg);
-    }
-
     // Upgrading to 0.8; hard-link the old blknnnn.dat files into /blocks/
     filesystem::path blocksDir = GetDataDir() / "blocks";
     if (!filesystem::exists(blocksDir))

From 1859aafef0a273e27e886646e36140cc5e375ee1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:41:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Try moving database/ away in case of failure

---
 src/init.cpp | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 11b7554ed1b..48495c446a4 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -605,8 +605,22 @@ bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup)
 
     if (!bitdb.Open(GetDataDir()))
     {
-        string msg = strprintf(_("Error initializing wallet database environment %s!"), strDataDir.c_str());
-        return InitError(msg);
+        // try moving the database env out of the way
+        boost::filesystem::path pathDatabase = GetDataDir() / "database";
+        boost::filesystem::path pathDatabaseBak = GetDataDir() / strprintf("database.%"PRI64d".bak", GetTime());
+        try {
+            boost::filesystem::rename(pathDatabase, pathDatabaseBak);
+            printf("Moved old %s to %s. Retrying.\n", pathDatabase.string().c_str(), pathDatabaseBak.string().c_str());
+        } catch(boost::filesystem::filesystem_error &error) {
+             // failure is ok (well, not really, but it's not worse than what we started with)
+        }
+
+        // try again
+        if (!bitdb.Open(GetDataDir())) {
+            // if it still fails, it probably means we can't even create the database env
+            string msg = strprintf(_("Error initializing wallet database environment %s!"), strDataDir.c_str());
+            return InitError(msg);
+        }
     }
 
     if (GetBoolArg("-salvagewallet"))

From ccda03b57022369c4352d0f5a816cff9ace833e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:43:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Remove database/ after clean shutdown

---
 src/db.cpp | 10 ++++++----
 src/db.h   |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/db.cpp b/src/db.cpp
index 35d6cca890a..52d613bc3b8 100644
--- a/src/db.cpp
+++ b/src/db.cpp
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ void CDBEnv::EnvShutdown()
     if (ret != 0)
         printf("EnvShutdown exception: %s (%d)\n", DbEnv::strerror(ret), ret);
     if (!fMockDb)
-        DbEnv(0).remove(strPath.c_str(), 0);
+        DbEnv(0).remove(path.string().c_str(), 0);
 }
 
 CDBEnv::CDBEnv() : dbenv(DB_CXX_NO_EXCEPTIONS)
@@ -57,14 +57,14 @@ void CDBEnv::Close()
     EnvShutdown();
 }
 
-bool CDBEnv::Open(const boost::filesystem::path& path)
+bool CDBEnv::Open(const boost::filesystem::path& pathIn)
 {
     if (fDbEnvInit)
         return true;
 
     boost::this_thread::interruption_point();
 
-    strPath = path.string();
+    path = pathIn;
     filesystem::path pathLogDir = path / "database";
     filesystem::create_directory(pathLogDir);
     filesystem::path pathErrorFile = path / "db.log";
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ bool CDBEnv::Open(const boost::filesystem::path& path)
     dbenv.set_flags(DB_AUTO_COMMIT, 1);
     dbenv.set_flags(DB_TXN_WRITE_NOSYNC, 1);
     dbenv.log_set_config(DB_LOG_AUTO_REMOVE, 1);
-    int ret = dbenv.open(strPath.c_str(),
+    int ret = dbenv.open(path.string().c_str(),
                      DB_CREATE     |
                      DB_INIT_LOCK  |
                      DB_INIT_LOG   |
@@ -456,6 +456,8 @@ void CDBEnv::Flush(bool fShutdown)
             {
                 dbenv.log_archive(&listp, DB_ARCH_REMOVE);
                 Close();
+                if (!fMockDb)
+                    boost::filesystem::remove_all(path / "database");
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/db.h b/src/db.h
index 206da91e9ee..ea440c49607 100644
--- a/src/db.h
+++ b/src/db.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class CDBEnv
 private:
     bool fDbEnvInit;
     bool fMockDb;
-    std::string strPath;
+    boost::filesystem::path path;
 
     void EnvShutdown();