improper shutdown which corrupted my overview and the active file needed renumbering

[Lisa Ungar]

Hello,

I had to rebuild the Overview files using

makehistory -O -x

and I got the following messages inside news.err


Dec 10 09:39:57 w3pilot2 makehistory[20220]: tradindexed: could not mmap
index f
ile for  forums.software.lotus.notes.client: Cannot allocate memory
Dec 10 09:39:58 w3pilot2 last message repeated 1815 times
Dec 10 09:40:42 w3pilot2 last message repeated 141 times
Dec 10 09:42:01 w3pilot2 makehistory[20220]: tradindexed: could not mmap
index f
ile for  forums.software.db2.udb: Cannot allocate memory
Dec 10 09:42:03 w3pilot2 last message repeated 1156 times
Dec 10 09:42:41 w3pilot2 makehistory[20220]: tradindexed: could not mmap
index f
ile for  forums.software.java: Cannot allocate memory
Dec 10 09:42:41 w3pilot2 last message repeated 1006 times
Dec 10 09:42:42 w3pilot2 makehistory[20220]: tradindexed: could not mmap
data fi
le for forums.software.lotus.notes.client: Cannot allocate memory
Dec 10 09:42:42 w3pilot2 last message repeated 13 times
Dec 10 09:43:18 w3pilot2 makehistory[20220]: tradindexed: could not mmap
index f
ile for  forums.hardware.thinkpad.model-t2x: Cannot allocate memory
Dec 10 09:43:19 w3pilot2 last message repeated 349 times
Dec 10 09:43:19 w3pilot2 makehistory[20220]: tradindexed: packgroup cant
write t
o /usr/local/news/spool/overview/f/s/a/forums.software.adsm-NEW.IDX: No
such fil
e or directory
Dec 10 09:43:19 w3pilot2 last message repeated 670 times


I am wondering why I got  the cant write to *NEW.IDX, after the rebuild ?
I do see the forums.software.adsm.IDX and forums.software.adsm.DAT in the
overview directory

Also, could someone explain the memory problem with the index file above?

I didn't rebuild the history, because I saw that missing articles were
still available inside the history db, using grephistory MESSAGE-ID
command.

Oh, I am currently running this version INN 2.3.3 (20011015 prerelease).

Thanks for your help,

Lisa