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

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.