missing articles and incomplete posts after crash

ratze at project-phobos.de ratze at project-phobos.de
Thu May 17 23:29:57 UTC 2001




Ok - I got it fixed ! =)

All posts were listed in the .overview files.

I just adjusted the active file and renumbered all posts - issues 1) &
2) are both fixed.

I used ./ctlinnd renumber <group> for each group, and taadaaa - they are
back =)

/jens


On Fri, 18 May 2001 ratze at project-phobos.de wrote:

> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I need some help with my INN (version 2.2.2) after a crash last night.
> 
> I restarted INN w/o any probs. After some testing I discovered the
> following:
> 
> 1) I am not able to post to all my groups anymore. some work, some don't. 
>   New messages are sent to INN w/o failure msgs - but they just don't show
>   up in the groups.
> 
> 2) Parts of my older articles and the ones postet yesterday are not shown
> anymore. I looked into my /var/spool/news archive and *all* news items i
> missed are still there (phew).
> 
> My best guess was that the history file could have been somehow damaged,
> so I rebuilt it with makehistory - but with no visible results - still
> the same messages as before. 
> How can i get *all* my exisiting messages back into my news ?
> 
> 
> 
> I am using INN as an internal forum for me and my friends. I don't feed   
> from other servers atm.
> 
> Initially I set up my inn.conf and feeds to never expire my posts.
> Disc space should not be a problem. I just got approx. 10 newsgroups that
> sum up to approx. a 1000 news items.
> 
> Any ideas on how to recover my posts? Should I upgrade my INN ?
> 
> Thanks for your help in advance!
> 
> Jens
> 
> 



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