Re: slrn broke after power failure
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 05:40:02 +0200 songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
wrote:
["Server read failed." when trying to enter a newsgroup]
> i have four thoughts.
>
> first one would be to do a fsck on that file system (after
> unmounting it).
No joy
> second one is to restore from backup or redownload articles
> after running the expire process.
I've tried the "c" (catchup) command, but that didn't help.
> third one would be to start over with a clean spool and
> then just grab the most recent few hundred articles for
> each newsgroup you want to read.
>
> and the last is maybe the least intrusive would be to test
> something out by deleting an empty file. will you be able
> to redownload it? try it and see what happens for one article
> and if you can then perhaps you can write a script that would
> get rid of all the zero length files and then be able to redownload
> them or expire them or something.
The zero-length files were easy enough to find, and few enough
that I just deleted them by hand. No luck. I've even tried
deleting the entire contents of a group, e.g.:
rm /var/spool/slrnpull/news/linux/debian/user/*
Still no luck. The group header window still shows the number
of messages that were available; the "c" command resets this to
zero, but I still get "Server read failed." when trying to enter
the group.
Oddly enough, there are one or two groups which are still
working properly.
> i'm not at all familiar with slrn's spooling or structure since
> i've been using leafnode ever since i started usenet. leafnode
> has a process that goes through and checks consistency and will
> rebuild an overview file for a group but i've never had a problem
> with it truncating contents to zero.
I was hoping that there was an slrn guru who could explain all this.
Oh well, I've been meaning to upgrade my laptop to Bullseye -
maybe it's time to nuke slrn and re-install it from scratch.
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cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
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