expireover segfaults

[Bernd Jendrissek]

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Every night at 4:02, crond runs "/usr/bin/news.daily delayrm expireover".
About a minute after that expireover segfaults and I find a notice in my
mailbox.

I have now patched up to INN 2.3.3, but the problem persists.  Here's the
data, please ask for more if needed.

gdb /usr/bin/expireover core:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x40023085 in OVERGetHeader (
    p=0x28407f8a <Address 0x28407f8a out of bounds>, field=3) at ov.c:970
#1  0x40023998 in OVhisthasmsgid () at ov.c:1050
#2  0x400323bf in buffindexed_expiregroup () at buffindexed.c:1751
#3  0x40021c43 in OVexpiregroup () at ov.c:316
#4  0x804924a in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffd54) at expireover.c:165
(gdb) list
965         char                *next, *q;
966
967         fp = &ARTfields[field];
968
969         /* Skip leading headers. */
970         for (; field-- >= 0 && *p; p++)
971             if ((p = strchr(p, '\t')) == NULL)
972                 return NULL;
973         if (*p == '\0')
974             return NULL;

Although I haven't patched the source *at all*, I can't seem to correlate
the line numbers reported by gdb with the relevant calls.

[news at penguin /home/news/spool]$ wc /var/lib/news/active                             48     192    2040 /var/lib/news/active
[news at penguin /home/news/spool]$ wc /var/lib/news/history                         59555  138197 3814326 /var/lib/news/history
[news at penguin /home/news/spool]$ awk 'NF == 2 { print }' < /var/lib/news/history |wc
  40468   80936 1943617

/etc/news/storage.conf:
method timehash {
        newsgroups: *
        class: 0
}

[news at penguin /home/news/spool]$ grep buffindex /etc/news/*
/etc/news/inn.conf:ovmethod:            buffindexed

[news at penguin /home/news/spool]$ cat /etc/news/overview.ctl 
0:*

[news at penguin /home/news/spool]$ ls -l overview/
total 65794
- -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     33554432 Jul  3 12:32 OV0
- -rw-rw-r--   1 news     news     33554432 Jul  3 12:32 OV1

(overkill???)

TIA

Bernd Jendrissek

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