innd: tradindexed: cannot lock index hash table: Resource temporarily unavailable

[James Wilde]

Version is 2.4.1 running on Solaris 8.

This is the error message I'm getting in errlog when I try to start inn.
I have done some searching in the inn-workers archives and the FAQ
without result.  I'm trying to run this server as a slave to another
server from which we are going to take over.

I have also run the following script which replaces innd:

#! /bin/bash
# allow core dumps
ulimit -c unlimited
# save any output
exec > /tmp/innd.log 2>&1
# who are we running as, anyway?
id
# show exported environment
export
# start innd (don't forget the arguments, or it will complain)
exec strace -o /tmp/innd.strace -f -F /news/bin/innd-real "$@"

The first exec statement produces a short innd.log.  The second produces
no output whatsoever.  The log is:

uid=119(news) gid=119(news)
declare -x HOME="/news"
declare -x HOSTNAME="newsslave"
declare -x HOSTTYPE="sparc"
declare -x LOGNAME="usenet"
declare -x MACHTYPE="sparc-sun-solaris"
declare -x OSTYPE="solaris"
declare -x
PATH="/usr/local/news/bin:/usr/local/news/etc:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb"
declare -x PWD="/tmp"
declare -x SHELL="/bin/sh"
declare -x SHLVL="1"
declare -x TERM="dumb"
declare -x TMPDIR="/usr/local/news/tmp"
declare -x USER="usenet"

The db directory looks like this:

-rw-r--r--    1 news     news      1934022 Jun  2 11:36 active
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news          225 Apr  1 13:14 active.org
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news            0 Apr  1 13:27 active.times
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news            0 Jun  4 11:12 history
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news           43 Jun  9 13:26 history.dir
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news     60000000 Jun  9 13:26 history.hash
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news     80000000 Jun  9 13:26 history.index
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news       250206 Jun  4 11:27 newsgroups
-rw-r--r--    1 news     news          333 Apr  1 13:14 newsgroups.org

I've run the makedbz -i command and changed the filenames by removing
the .n.  I've recompiled innd for large files as I suspect that my large
cnfs files are a touch over 2 GB.

Any further suggestions welcome.

mvh/regards

James

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