jeh@simpact.com (02/14/90)
I'm posting the following on behalf of a new DECUS uucp user.
I note that 184EC is an RMS code for ~"can't add record, duplicate key,
DUP not set" (the last bit meaning that duplicate key values aren't allowed).
Any ideas?
--- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG
Internet: jeh@simpact.com, or if that fails, jeh@crash.cts.com
Uucp: ...{crash,scubed,decwrl}!simpact!jeh
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 13:26:19 CST
From: <cs.utexas.edu!memqa!qfhca81%ames.UUCP@ucsd.edu>
To: crash.cts.com!jeh@cs.utexas.edu
Subject: NEWS 5.8 problem
I am in the early stages of bringing up DECUS UUCP 1.1 and ANU NEWS 5.8.
Everything seems to work, except that I am having a problem POSTing news.
The symptoms I am experiencing are:
I can POST to local newsgroups fine, but when I try to Post to a sci. group,
for example, I get the message:
Error: Post - (sci.physics) Cannot add to Newsitem index file (B00184EC)
In mucking around in the source, it _looks_ like I didn't do the install
properly to give NEWS.EXE the necessary SYSPRV, but I re-did the install and
that didn't help. I even get the error message when trying to POST from the
SYSTEM account.
I have re-checked the ownership and protections on the various files, but
I am not having any luck spotting the problem.
Any suggestions?
Henry Melton
cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!hutto!henry
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cs.utexas.edu!puzzle!memqa!qfhca81tp@mccall.uucp (02/14/90)
> I can POST to local newsgroups fine, but when I try to Post to a sci. group, > for example, I get the message: > Error: Post - (sci.physics) Cannot add to Newsitem index file (B00184EC) I had a similar problem in v5.7. I don't know if the error code was the same or not. Also, all incoming news (i.e. Add Batch commands) generated a REJECT message for almost every article. It actually degraded slowly, starting in one group and sporadically spreading. About 3/4 of my groups were not accepting news by the time I noticed it. (It just happened that the groups I read most were hit last, or maybe that is significant). Anyway, the only solution that worked for me was to delete the news.items file and rebuild it. Unfortunately, doing this takes 36-48 hours of real (wall clock) time or more, depending on how much news you have, and all articles look new (i.e. the will all show up as unread). Someone posted a program that would do this quicker, but as luck would have it, that is one of the articles that was rejected! Anyway, if you want to do this (Friday afternoon, preferably before a 3 day weekend!), the operative command is: NEWS> add file/delete news_device:[*...]*.itm I don't recall doing anything other than just deleting news.items and doing the above command, but you might look in the installation instructions in the section on running news for the first time to see if there is any other preparation to do. If you need to rebuild news.groups as well (I didn't), I suppose you could delete it and add the /cregrp qualifier to the above command. Beware that it will create some bogus groups because of cross-posting, but those can always be deleted later. Hopefully, you won't have to resort to this, but it did solve my problem. I have no idea what the actual cause is/was. -- Terry Poot (800)255-2762, in Kansas (913)776-4041 The McCall Pattern Company, 615 McCall Rd., Manhattan, KS 66502, USA UUCP: rutgers!ksuvax1!mccall!tp Internet: tp%mccall@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu
sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) (02/17/90)
In article <938.25d8183f@simpact.com>, jeh@simpact.com writes: > I'm posting the following on behalf of a new DECUS uucp user. .. > I can POST to local newsgroups fine, but when I try to Post to a sci. group, > for example, I get the message: > Error: Post - (sci.physics) Cannot add to Newsitem index file (B00184EC) It sounds as if either you NEWS.GROUPS or NEWS.ITEMS files is corrupted. If I were you, I would start over by deleting the NEWS.GROUPS and NEWS.ITEMS files and re-doing the installation. You would be well advised to to this soon, as the larger you news database grows, the harder it will be to reconstruct. You can add in the current articles that you already have (after deleting NEWS.GROUPS and NEWS.ITEMS) by doing: NEWS> ADD FILE/RETRY/DELETE NEWS_DEVICE:[*...]*.ITM;* If you have a lot of articles already in the NEWS database, this will take a LONG time to run. If you are an RMS INDEXED FILE expert, you might try to recover the files using ANALYZE/RMS and CONVERT. I have had mixed success doing things like this, but then I don't know much about RMS or INDEXED files. :-) -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444
gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (02/18/90)
>I'm posting the following on behalf of a new DECUS uucp user. >I note that 184EC is an RMS code for ~"can't add record, duplicate key, >DUP not set" (the last bit meaning that duplicate key values aren't allowed). >Any ideas? > > --- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA > >I can POST to local newsgroups fine, but when I try to Post to a sci. group, >for example, I get the message: >Error: Post - (sci.physics) Cannot add to Newsitem index file (B00184EC) > >Any suggestions? This was a 5.8 bug. If the news.group file "lost sync" with the news.item file, then the put would fail for certain newsgroups. The fix is in the do_new_item code in V5.9. The bug was reported and fixed in May / June 1989. Geoff