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Subject: newspost: unexpected server response
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:38:32PM -0800, Tong Sun wrote:
>--- Tong Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>First of all, thanks for this wonderful piece of tool. I've tried
>
>Hi again Jim,
>
>Over a month ago, I reported a posting problem with newspost and
>teranews. The problem comes so often that I decided to look into it.
>The result, I have now a fix for a more robust newspost that will
>survive some insane news server status.
>
>The symptom was:
>
>-----
>| WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 Article Posted
>| Retrying
>| WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 Article Posted
>| Retrying
>| Socket error: Broken pipe
>`-----
>
>The "Broken pipe" error, causes the whole posting to a stop.=20
>
>The reason is that, the unexpected server response, "240 Article
>Posted" was not after the article posted, but right after issuing the
>POST command.=20
>
>I modified the base/nntp.c to reveal the error:
>
>- - - - >8 - - - -
> if (strncmp(response, NNTP_PROCEED_WITH_POST, 3) !=3D 0) {
> /* this shouldn't really happen */
> fprintf(stderr, "\ncase1 %02x %02x %02x, %s",
> response[0], response[1], response[2], response);
> ui_nntp_unknown_response(response);
> return NORMAL;
> return POSTING_FAILED;
> }
>- - - - >8 - - - -
>
>- - - - >8 - - - -
>Posting part 67 of 78: done. =20
> case1 32 34 30, WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 Article
>Posted
>Posting part 68 of 78: done. =20
> case1 32 34 30, WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 Article
>Posted
>Posting part 69 of 78: done. =20
>[..]
>Posting part 71 of 78: done. =20
> case1 32 34 30, WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 Article
>Posted
>Posting part 72 of 78: done. =20
>
>Socket error: Broken pipe
>- - - - >8 - - - -
>
>The "case2" is before the other place that calls the "unexpected server
>response" procedure, which was never hit.
>
>You can see once the news server gets into this insane status, waiting
>and retrying won't help. So I change the program to reconnect if this
>"shouldn't really happen" happens.
>
>I kept the modification to the minimum, which is attached in the email.
>
>The minimum modification have proven to be very effective. I've noticed
>that it can resume posting successfully as many times as it requires
>during my post:
>
>Posting part 24 of 45: done. =20
>Posting part 25 of 45: done. =20
>
> 32 34 30, WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 Article Posted
>Retrying
>Connecting to free.teranews.com... done.
>Logging on to free.teranews.com... done.
>Posting part 26 of 45: done. =20
>
>Posting part 31 of 45: done. =20
>
> 32 34 30, WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 Article Posted
>Retrying
>Connecting to free.teranews.com... done.
>Logging on to free.teranews.com... done.
>Posting part 32 of 45: done. =20
>
>Posting part 82 of 86: done. =20
>
> 32 34 30, WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 Article Posted
>Retrying
>Connecting to free.teranews.com... done.
>Logging on to free.teranews.com... done.
>Posting part 83 of 86: done. =20
>
>I hope you can incorporate my modification in future version of
>newspost, so others can benefit from the modification also.=20
>
>Debian QA Group, I didn't get any feed back from Jim last time, could
>you help me correspond with me, or at least incorporate my modification
>in Debian please, since the last version was several years old, so it
>is safe to do so.
>
>thanks
>
>tong
>
>Content-Description: newspost-2.1.1-base-nntp.c.diff
>--- newspost-2.1.1/base/nntp.c 2003-04-23 11:33:23.000000000 -0400
>+++ ../newspost-2.1.1/base/nntp.c 2005-03-08 11:07:01.000000000 -0500
>@@ -80,2 +80,31 @@
> boolean no_ui_updates) {
>+ int retval =3D _nntp_post(subject, data, buffer, length, no_ui_updates);
>+
>+ if (retval =3D=3D POSTING_FAILED-64) {
>+ /* try log out then back in */
>+ ui_nntp_posting_retry();
>+ nntp_logoff();
>+ socket_close();
>+ sleep(5);
>+
>+ /* create the socket */
>+ ui_socket_connect_start(data->address->data);
>+ retval =3D socket_create(data->address->data, data->port);
>+ if (retval < 0)
>+ return retval;
>+ ui_socket_connect_done();
>+
>+ ui_nntp_logon_start(data->address->data);
>+ if (nntp_logon(data) =3D=3D FALSE)
>+ return POSTING_FAILED;
>+ ui_nntp_logon_done();
>+
>+ retval =3D _nntp_post(subject, data, buffer, length,
>no_ui_updates);
>+ }
>+ return retval;
>+}
>+
>+int _nntp_post(const char *subject, newspost_data *data,=20
>+ const char *buffer, long length,
>+ boolean no_ui_updates) {
> char response[STRING_BUFSIZE];
>@@ -97,3 +126,3 @@
> ui_nntp_unknown_response(response);
>- return POSTING_FAILED;
>+ return POSTING_FAILED-64;
> }
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Source-Version: 2.1.1-3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
newspost, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
newspost_2.1.1-3.diff.gz
to pool/main/n/newspost/newspost_2.1.1-3.diff.gz
newspost_2.1.1-3.dsc
to pool/main/n/newspost/newspost_2.1.1-3.dsc
newspost_2.1.1-3_i386.deb
to pool/main/n/newspost/newspost_2.1.1-3_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:52:04 +1100
Source: newspost
Binary: newspost
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.1.1-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
newspost - Usenet binary autoposter
Closes: 300669
Changes:
newspost (2.1.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
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* QA Upload.
* Fixed "unexpected server response", closes: #300669.
Patch by Tong Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Files:
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c3df90c0955aed2337166aad2eb18dc3 2859 news optional newspost_2.1.1-3.diff.gz
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