Core (innd) with 20000627

[Heath Kehoe]

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

Yow... that looks like memory corruption.  BerkeleyDB 3.1.14 definitely has problems
in its memory pool code (the memp_* functions).  I wouldn't be surprised if it is
the reason your memory got trounced.


>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).
>

One thing you could try (if you havn't already) is:
 1) kill all of the news processes
 2) delete the __db.* files in /news/spool/overview
 3) run "ovdb_recover -f" (as the news user)
 4) rc.news

This will only buy you some time until it gets corrupted again.
I recommend that you delete your overview and downgrade to
berkeleydb-2.7.7.

-heath