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

Answer 1

Using sqlite3 you can repair the DB.

cd ~/.meteor/package-metadata/v2.0.1
sqlite3 packages.data.db .dump > backup
mv packages.data.db packages.data.db.bustedX
sqlite3 packages.data.db < backup
rm backup

Essentially, even though the DB reports as corrupt. The SQLite tool can dump it and then recreate it.

Cheers!

Answer 2

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.