Can't initialize storage manager: one or more storage methods failed initialization

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Apr 10 08:59:26 UTC 2000


agayev at boun.edu.tr writes:

> And here's the actual reason of failed initialization

>    [news at guney ~] ./a.out
>    Value too large to be stored in data type

> A.out does a stat(2) on "/usr/news/spool/other" followed by perror.
> Platform is AIX 4.3.2; large file support enabled for /usr/news partition.

> After looking at /usr/include/sys/stat.h, I recompiled with -D_LARGE_FILES
> (i.e. by adding -D_LARGE_FILES to CFLAGS in Makefile.global) and
> makehistory -i succeeded.

> In the hopes of saving time of _many_ people, that I spent _once_.

Yes, thank you!  We had this discussion again later; AIX definitely needs
_LARGE_FILES instead of the flags that INN configure figures out for other
platforms.  I need to add this....

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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