ovdb_recover freezeup...

[Heath Kehoe]

>
>FreebSd 4.0, 5/15 beta, db3.0.55.
>
>I came in today, and INN was frozen up.  netstat showed the recv socket
>buffer for each nntp socket was full, but INN was sitting there in the S
>state, and not reading any of the data.
>
>So I monkeyed with it a bit, and finally had to kill innd.  Rebooted the
>box, restarted inn with rc.news start, and it gets to ovdb_recover, and
>just sits there.
>
>No disk IO, no CPU usage, nothing.
>
>Nothing I do will get it started.  I can wipe the overview db, and restart
>collecting it, which isn't that big a deal, but the freezeup seems odd.
>
>The only modification I have made to INN from the 5/15 release was to bump
>the SO_RCVBUF to 131072 from 24k as a test.  But since I'm not even
>getting to inn starting in rc.news, I can't imagine it's an issue...
>
>
>I couldn't get buffindexed to work, and traditional ain't gonna cut it...
>
>I may try running the db-3.0.55 test suite, but I guess it takes a couple
>days according to something I read. 
>

What happens if you try 'ovdb_recover -f' ?

-h