Meteor won't start -- fibers/futures.js throws error "Error: SQLITE_CORRUPT: database disk image is malformed"

Question

Right now, running locally, every action from the Meteor CLI in OSX throws this exception:

/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/fibers/future.js:245 throw(ex);

Error: SQLITE_CORRUPT: database disk image is malformed

I'm stumped.

I looked at the fibers/future.js code but it's way beyond me. I see that SQLite is used in catalog-remote.js, so is there a way to reset using the SQLite CLI tool? Or, should I delete and reinstall SQlite3 (and if so, how)?

Here's the full log I get in Terminal when trying any Meteor command:

/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/fibers/future.js:245
                        throw(ex);
                              ^
Error: SQLITE_CORRUPT: database disk image is malformed
    at Object.Future.wait (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/fibers/future.js:395:18)
    at runOnce (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:237:21)
    at [object Object]._.extend._serialize (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:176:14)
    at [object Object]._.extend.runInTransaction (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:242:21)
    at [object Object]._.extend._columnsQuery (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:888:24)
    at [object Object]._.extend._contentQuery (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:878:21)
    at [object Object]._.extend.getReleaseVersion (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:663:23)
    at Object.release.load (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/release.js:233:41)
    at /Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/main.js:893:23
    - - - - -
    at Object.Future.wait (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/fibers/future.js:398:14)
    at [object Object]._.extend._query (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:312:22)
    at [object Object]._.extend.query (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:76:20)
    at /Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:889:18
    at runOnce (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:211:18)
    at [object Object]._.extend._serialize (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:176:14)
    at [object Object]._.extend.runInTransaction (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:242:21)
    at [object Object]._.extend._columnsQuery (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:888:24)
    at [object Object]._.extend._contentQuery (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:878:21)
    at [object Object]._.extend.getReleaseVersion (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/catalog-remote.js:663:23)
    at Object.release.load (/Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/release.js:233:41)
    at /Users/mallorym/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.3.1d614zp++os.osx.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.osx.x86_64/tools/main.js:893:23
    - - - - -

Thanks for any help ^^

Answer 1

With a little help from here, I was able to fix it, and without having to delete all my downloaded meteor packages, as suggested in that post. It was enough to delete the metadata:

rm -rf ~/.meteor/package-metadata

Just be prepared to wait quite a while while meteor recreates these databases on next start.