server crash

[Lisa Ungar]

Hi,
>> I'm not sure I understand what you're doing here.  Do you suspect one 
>> particular article, or were you just trying to get a general feel for 
>> what's wrong?

I isolated one of the articles with problems and was just trying to get a 
general feel for what's wrong.

This is the full error message.

 bad_history a
 60985158 for CB56689CECFCE7EF15CFA8D267731B8E in 
05010000025E00000133000000000
000000@
bad_history a
 60985256 for 46B419341C32ED568707D9289F19D6A6 in 
05010000025E00000134000000000
000000@

Thanks,

Lisa



"Jeffrey M.Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> 
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02/03/2005 10:43 PM

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Re: server crash






On Feb 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Lisa Ungar wrote:

> The other server (slave server), the overview and active files were not
> corrupt, but we have bad_history error.

I can't say I've ever seen this error myself, but if I read the code 
right, it looks like there is a corrupt line in your history file (in 
particular, a line with no "tab" character).


> It can't locate the article.   I ran grephistory on both boxes for a
> particular post.  The server with the bad_history sent back a message
> /dev/null.  The other server came back with the token as expect.  I ran
> the sm -i command on the token and found where the article was located

I'm not sure I understand what you're doing here.  Do you suspect one 
particular article, or were you just trying to get a general feel for 
what's wrong?


> We have run makehistory -a -b and it didn't fixed the bad_history 
> error.

By using the -a flag, you've probably retained the corrupt line, and so 
the new lines don't even have a chance to come into play.

If you want, you can dig around in the history file and try to identify 
the problem, delete the offending lines, and run makedbz.  Or, if you 
don't mind having the history file only reflect the articles on the 
server (probably no big deal, unless you expect to get a burst of old, 
already-expired articles), you can just run makehistory without -a.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org