Problems after crash due to power break

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Rejo Zenger wrote:

> Now, INN seems to be up and running again, except for the fact that some
> articles that were previously in the spool, seem to have been gone. They
> are no longer listed in the db-files, although I guess the article is
> still in the spool (there is no reason to suppose they are gone, the
> CNFS buffers are calculated to allowe an expiry of several years).

Well, it's possible the articles never actually got written all the way to
disk, depending on what sort of caching happens in between on your system.  

Is it only recent articles that went missing?  (Normally that's the case, 
although "recent" can vary.)


> So, I have just tried to rebuild the history and overview, but it seems
> this did not affect (or even improve) the situation. According to the
> manpage I have tried "makehistory -b -f history.n -O -l 30000 -I" with
> afterwards a renaming of the *.n files.

Did you miss the `makedbz` step after that, by chance?


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org