news reader cannot see articles

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sat Jan 27 19:30:03 UTC 2007


Russ Allbery wrote:
> Howard Yuen <howard.yuen at tumbleweed.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Yes, it does.
>>     
>
>   
>> # /usr/local/news/bin/tdx-util -o -n weed.pso.paypal
>> 1       Test news article       howard.yuen at tumbleweed.com ("Howard
>> Yuen")      Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:43:33 -0800
>> <371D08BFE354B24AAF56B7EED3412290045F9B3B at RWCEXVS01.corp.tumbleweed.com>
>> 1296    2       Xref: tumbleweed.com weed.pso.paypal:1  Article: 1
>> Token: @0501000000EE000000010000000000000000@   Arrived: Fri, 26 Jan
>> 2007 22:43:34 -0800 (PST)
>> #  
>>     
>
>   
>>> 200 tumbleweed.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1 ready (posting 
>>> ok).
>>> group weed.pso.paypal
>>> 211 1 1 1 weed.pso.paypal
>>> xover 1-
>>> 224 1- fields follow
>>> .
>>> article 1
>>> 423 Bad article number
>>>       
>
> Okay, I'm becoming more and more convinced that something fundamental is
> wrong here, although I don't know what.  I don't see how else to explain
> the behavior that you're seeing, where the overview is present and working
> correctly, the active file is correct, innd is writing data to overview
> without any trouble, nnrpd is seeing the right article count, and yet it
> can't read the actual overview data.
>
> There's some sort of subtle permissions problem here (like the
> subdirectories in your overview spool not being readable by nnrpd), or
> there's something broken in the operating system (mmap support or
> something), or nnrpd and tdx-util are expecting different on-disk data
> formats, or there's something else really fundamental that's wrong.
>   
I don't think broken in the o/s, or old groups wouldn't work. I think 
something in the creation process is not working as it should.
> With this sort of result, I'm not convinced that rebuilding everything is
> actually going to help.  According to the above, all the data is already
> there; rebuilding isn't going to create any better overview than what you
> already have.
>
>   
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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979



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