Server Cannot Store Article

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Andy Malato wrote:

> Jan 12 07:13:43 apatite.njit.edu innd: [ID 886406 news.error] tradindexed:
> could  not write index record for control.cancel:142197911

I'm not sure what's causing this.

Umm.  I just grepped STABLE for that error message, and it appears that 
it's coming from storage/ov3/ov3.c -- yet it says tradindexed.  Does that 
sound odd to anyone else?


> [ bunch of classic "needs makehistory + renumber" SMstore errors ]
> 
> I have tried to do makehistory -b -e -F -I -O
> and then restarted inn and did ctlinnd renumber ""

That should have fixed all the errors I snipped.  (Err, you probably
should have done makedbz after makehistory, but I don't think that would 
explain these errors.)

Ho hum.  If you're using the ov3 stuff -- did you wipe overview before you 
did the makehistory?

That's my only idea -- I'm hoping somebody else can comment on either the 
error at the top of this message or the ones below.


> Jan 12 21:26:14 apatite.njit.edu makehistory[18610]: [ID 124423
> news.error] tradspool: can't determine class: @0500000026CB03372BF50000000000000000@: Bad
> article handle
> Jan 12 21:27:51 apatite.njit.edu makehistory[19763]: [ID 886406
> news.error] tradindexed: could not write index record for control.cancel:142195624

I dunno about this.


> [ too many to list them all ]

Are they all of one of the two types listed above?


> This server was running perfectly fine to my knowledge prior to Thursday,
> a reboot without stopping innd first caused this to happen, it seems to
> just be getting worse.  I have a feeling the active file is hosed, I don't
> know for sure.  any ideas, suggestions to get me back in business?

You can recover from a power failure with makehistory and renumber; the 
trouble you're having is unusual.

By the way, if you're willing to discard some or all of your articles, 
there are a variety of things you can do with less effort than rebuilding 
everything.



-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org