Problem with rebuild

From: Brian Jackson (brianj@mozart.inet.co.th)
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 21:40:05 +0700

Today one of my mailing list pseudo newsgroups seemed to get
corrupted. In the newsgroup list window it showed 28 unread messages,
when I went into it it showed only 5. One of these wouldn't open,
giving the red error box. The newly imported messages were all in
there when I view the whole index, but were showing having been read.
I marked the group caught up, all other groups were fine.

Tonight I imported another packet, and the same thing happened. I
thought I would just clear the group completely, so I exit from yarn
and ran expire -r on just that group. It expired 279 messages, but
said that it had deleted only 278. When I tried to start yarn again it
gave an out of memory error and wouldn't run.

I ran rebuild -s but it had no effect on news.dat. Reading the doc, I
decided to try and rebuild the history file with rebuild -h. It gave
me a "Permission denied" Permission what?

I then ran scandisk, and then rebuild -s again. Now yarn will run, but
it shows all newsgroups completely empty, and my news.dat is still 15
Mb. All the articles are there but yarn doesn't see them, so expire -r
won't delete anything. Any ideas?

Brian Jackson