Re: Problem with rebuild
From: Allen Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@efn.org)
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 21:19:44 -0700
In article <FPQN0YhtjP6N092yn@mozart.inet.co.th>,
brianj@mozart.inet.co.th (Brian Jackson) wrote:
>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?
Hmm. Could you have been running yarn (or expire, import, a different
rebuild, etc.) or looking at news.dat with a hex file viewer or something?
>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?
Try a rebuild -o? Maybe followed by another rebuild -s?
BTW, what did scandisk report?