grv@tahoma.UUCP (04/11/87)
I am having problems with both patches 5 and 6 for news 2.11 and I'm
wondering if anyone else has run into them.
The changes made in patch #5 to make unbatching faster (patches to
ifuncs.c used in inews) seem to be broken, as least on my system. The
problem appears to be in the checkbatch() code (where major changes were
made), but it doesn't happen all the time. I had a file with only one
article, with nothing strange in it, that would cause rnews/inews to core
dump every time.
Patch #6 was somewhat better for inews in that the "bus error" seems to
have occurred after all articles in the batch file had been processed. I
started saving the batch files when the problems began, so after backing
off to patch #4 again and running the batch through rnews, the log
contained only "Duplicate article" messages. Even worse, expire is now
broken as well, aborting in the hread routine (header.c). The temporary
history files and output log get created and that's as far as it gets.
Patch didn't complain about any problems in applying both #5 and #6, so I'm
inclined to believe it's either my configuration setup or oversights in
upgrade patches. With patch #4 as stable as it is, I don't want to spend
the time digging into the code to understand what's going on, especially if
someone else has found a fix. If it helps, my configuration is:
* Alliant FX-8 running Concentrix V3 (bsd 4.2)
* news 2.11 patchlevel 5 or 6
* Receiving compressed batches from a Sun running news 2.10.2 (I'm
running the old cunbatch script - 'exec compress -d | rnews')
* Defs defined:
MANUALLY BATCH "unbatch" MYDOMAIN ".ARPA"
GHNAME V7MAIL SORTACTIVE
ZAPNOTES DIGPAGE BSD4_2
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