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slrn broke after power failure



Running Buster:
Linux cjglap2 4.19.0-20-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.235-1 (2022-03-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Today when I tried reading Usenet I ran into problems. I use slrnpull to fetch news from a server - that part still works. When I run slrn to read the news, it comes up with the normal list of newsgroups and number of new messages in each group. If I then try to enter one of the groups, the status line says "Selecting <groupname> ...", quickly followed by "Server read failed." At this point I'm not trying to access the NNTP server; the messages have already been downloaded by slrnpull, and I can see them in (for example) /var/spool/slrnpull/news/linux/debian/user. I did notice that a number of files containing articles which I downloaded yesterday now have a length of zero.

~/.slrnrc and ~/.jnewsrc appear to be intact.

It might be a coincidence, but the laptop I read news on had its battery run down overnight. Normally this isn't a problem; it's always successfully cleaned up the file systems on re-boot. Searching the web for "slrn server read failed" draws a blank. Any suggestions where to look next?

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