Core (innd) with 20000627

[Bettina Fink]

> just found that innd (inn-BETA-20000627) on my test machine
> crashed last night:

Because of the longer downtime, the backlog file for the test
machine on one of the feeders got shrunk several times. So I
created some hand-prepared backlog files on the feeder machine
to feed the missing articles to the test machine (the backlog
file has about 130.000 articles).

I got suspicious because the history on the test machine has
nearly doubled in size within two hours and I saw absurd high
numbers of accepted articles in the log and the size of the
hand-prepared backlog file on the feeder is still very big.

So I started a news reader on the test machine and what I
feared is true: Tons of duplicate articles, the test machine
has accepted nearly every article twice.

... I've just restarted the news reader to paste some "screen
shots" in this mail and now it's even worse, no articles are
displayed in the reader and the log is full of this:

Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ<.ýÿ: No such file or directory
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus last message repeated 16 times
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ^\ùþÿ: No such fil e or directory
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ^\ùþÿ: No such file or directory
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ<.ýÿ: No such file or directory
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ^\ùþÿ: No such file or directory
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ^\ùþÿ: No such file or directory
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ<.ýÿ: No such file or directory
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ^\ùþÿ: No such file or directory
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ^\ùþÿ: No such file or directory
Jun 30 15:44:40 nautilus nnrpd[13573]: OVDB: /news/spool/overview/ÿÿÿÿ<.ýÿ: No such file or directory

The core last night was with inn-BETA-20000627, the duplicates and
trashed overview are with inn-BETA-20000629 I installed some hours
ago.

If no one needs some data from this completely messed up machine,
I'll go and start from scratch (deleteting history, spool and over-
views).

*sigh*

Bye,
Bettina