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slrn broke after power failure

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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?

-- 
/~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  Life is perverse.
\ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  It can be beautiful -
  X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  but it won't.
/ \  if you read it the right way.  |    -- Lily Tomlin

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slrn broke after power failure Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2022-04-16 00:40 +0200
  Re: slrn broke after power failure songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2022-04-16 05:40 +0200

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