Re: Problem on expire -o Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 19:16:02 -0600

Michael Gray (LabRat@i-link.net)
Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:50:34 -0600

In article <S5nhyo3qBCaQ092yn@airmail.net>, pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:

Hmm, looks like Phil has been playing around with his headers :-)

><L1jhyI+etuqf092yn@pink.allcon.com> X-Newsreader: Yarn + Yep + Yin +
>FTE + VSoup for OS/2 X-Moon-Phase: The Moon is New! X-OS2-System: Warp
>4, 18 processes, 70 threads.
>Lines: 28
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>on my regular "expire -o" I've got the following error:
>>
>>===
>>Article at offset 30421456 has size 1345144096. Skipped 1175 bytes.
>>
>>Article at offset 30424312 has size 1851878773. Skipped 796 bytes.
>>
>>Article at offset 30425112 has size 1979711488. Skipped 3211 bytes.
>>Assertion failed: blk.prev + free.size + sizeof(BlockHeader) == delOffset, file
>>..\SPOOLFIL.CPP, line 235
>>ABNORMAL TERMINATION
>>===
>>
>>What's going on here ?
>
>I received this error ONCE with the OS/2 version of Yarn.
>
>I've seen others mention this same error, though I think it was the DOS
>version.
>
>Have you tried running rebuild.exe?

I get this error when I run out of space on my Soup packet. When the
packet is imported, the incomplete messages are imported and give this
error when they are expired. Rebuild should be run only if the error
continues. It WILL reset the import date on ALL messages in your
database.

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