makehistory: Can't write overview data

Ari Heikkinen aheikin at phaser-atm.pspt.fi
Thu Sep 7 14:37:22 UTC 2000



On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ari Heikkinen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just compiled the latest inn-stable (2.3) to upgrade previous stable
> snapshot (2.2) and installed it with "make update". Now I'm currently
> running makehistory as per instructions in NEWS.
> 
> I don't know if this is a bug or a feature but I'm getting lots of these
> kind of messages from makehistory:
> 
> makehistory: Can't write overview data "@03324342413034000000001C12D300000006@"
> makehistory: Can't write overview data "@03324342413035000000001C166900000006@"
> makehistory: Can't write overview data "@03324342413034000000001C142100000006@"
> makehistory: Can't write overview data "@03324342413035000000001C17CF00000006@"
> makehistory: Can't write overview data "@03324342413034000000001C14B300000006@"
> makehistory: Can't write overview data "@03324342413035000000001C183E00000006@"
> makehistory: Can't write overview data "@03324342413035000000001C18F600000006@"
> makehistory: Can't write overview data "@03324342413034000000001C15CC00000006@"
> ...and so on...
> 
> However, besides getting those occasional "Can't write overview data"
> lines from makehistory it appears to work. Is it safe to ignore them?
> 
> (prior to running "makehistory" I rm -rf'd the contents of spool/overview
> and spool/uniover to make a fresh overview and added "ovmethod: tradindexed"
> into "inn.conf")
> 
> The system I'm running news on is SGI Origin 200 running Irix 6.5.9.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any information,
> 
> Ari Heikkinen - PSPT <e-mail: aheikin at dlr.pspt.fi>

To add more info, I get the following in syslog:

Sep 7 16:44:56 3H:raptor makehistory[6140]: tradindexed: could not mmap
index file for comp.unix.admin: No such device or address

And digging a bit:
ttyq1: news at raptor ~ > grep "No such device or address" /usr/include/sys/errno.h
#define ENXIO   6       /* No such device or address            */

And from mmap manual page:

     ENXIO  Addresses in the range [off, off + len) are invalid for fd.

     ENXIO  The argument len has a value less than or equal to 0.



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