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Re: slrn broke after power failure

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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.

-- 
cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

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Re: slrn broke after power failure Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2022-04-17 21:00 +0200
  Re: slrn broke after power failure songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2022-04-18 02:50 +0200

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