At 10:27 PM 6/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I went through a few groups and deleted a large number of trash items, hand
>grooming the groups. Everything looked fine afterwards, but then I found a
>bit of a problem.
>
>The first problem was that DNewsWeb would hit a large block of deleted items
>and give the appearance that there were no further items after the large
>block of deleted items. Note that "large block" is somewhere around 25
>consecutive deleted items.
>
>To fix that problem, I did a rebuild pile and that seemed to fix the
>DNewsWeb problem since all items were now consecutively numbered with no
>large blocks of deleted items.
>
>However then DNews decided to launch a check index for some reason. I
>believe this is automatically done following a rebuild piles. This generated
>a second problem. While checking the index, DNews found some of the deleted
>items and put them in a consecutive block at the end of the group.
>
>At this point I then attempt to redelete the deleted trash items that were
>found during the index check. However this takes me back to the first
>problem, since I now have a large block of deleted items again!
>
>At this point I can't seem to find a way to get items actually deleted and
>keep them from being refound! I've tried to rebuild just about everything.
>But the index keeps being checked and the deleted items keep getting found.
>And if I delete the trash items, I end up with DNewsWeb unable to read items
>for the groups being affected!
>
>HELP!
Ahh, ok, I see I've read you emails in the wrong order, so you did do a
rebuild
after deleting the items, this is what messed up fts.
Now, the rebuild_piles is not supposed to renumber items, but you have a broken
version of dnews, upgrade to 5.6 and then the rebuild will work
correctly. But it
won't renumber which was what you did it for :-)
So that won't fix your gaps, but the dnewsweb in 5.6 would probably
work with the gaps.
To fix the fts you needs to blow away the fts indexes, restart dnews and
xmit process
and then tellnews refeed ftsfeed
ChrisP.
