wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (08/08/84)
Does the following item, received at brl-tgr, indicate a new and different netnews bug? Note that it says it is 28 lines long, but has only two lines, the last one incomplete. This is superficially like the "line-eater" bug, but the crucial difference is that the data lost is at the END, not at the beginning of the text! If it was just a trashed submission, sent out incompletely, the number of lines should be much lower, like "2". So it must have been complete when it began its journey through the bowels of USENET... Worriedly, Will ***Start of item*** Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site vaxwaller.UUCP Path: brl-tgr!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!varian!vaxwaller!davew From: davew@vaxwaller.UUCP (Dave Whitlock) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: More on sailplane for sale Message-ID: <157@vaxwaller.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 13:44:17 EDT Article-I.D.: vaxwalle.157 Posted: Mon Aug 6 13:44:17 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Aug-84 23:43:14 EDT Organization: Varian, Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 28 I have gotten a few quirys for more info on the glider I have for sale. My site cannot mail to ARPA net sights so I am posting this to th ***End of item***
greg@sdcsvax.UUCP (Greg Noel) (08/11/84)
Will Martin asks if there is a new line-eater bug that eats lines at the END of programs instead of at the beginning. No, I think not; it's actually a rather old "bug" and it's too bad that it's not eliminated. I suspect that some system ran out of space on the filesystem with news on it, which will cause you to end up with a truncated article. Inews does not check to be sure that the news is written successfully. -- -- Greg Noel, NCR Torrey Pines Greg@sdcsvax.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA
phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (08/11/84)
vaxwaller.157 is intact on this site. I am concerned that we might
have damaged it in transmission as we are running a new version of
news and would like to know if any of the sites downstream of
us (with regard to the path taken by the sample Will posted) have
an intact copy or if they're all damaged.
I think some of those sites include decwrl, decvax, etc.
--
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Phil Ngai (408) 982-6554
UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd!phil
ARPAnet: amd!phil@decwrl.ARPAhoffman@pitt.UUCP (08/13/84)
Will Martin received the article over this path: >Path: brl-tgr!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!varian!vaxwaller!davew I received the identically damaged article over this path: >Path: pitt!idis!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!varian!vaxwaller!davew However, Phil Ngai at AMD received the article intact. From this I guess that the problem occurred at decwrl or decvax. My guess is that a full filesystem caused it. -- Bob Hoffman Pitt Computer Science