I moved over (using rsync) 42MB of working db*.itm files from DNews 5.4f3
(Solaris) to DNews 5.7b1 (Linux Mandrake 9.2) and did the "tellnews
rebuild_piles". Good things did not happen:
[...]
6 04:19:51.706 :info: next bucket chosen 16 pile 6
6 04:19:51.712 :info: Next oldest bucket that was being used 1
6 04:19:51.712 :info: Rebuild open /d2/dnews/spool/db_1.itm
6 04:19:51.718 :info: rebuild closing bucket (/d2/dnews/spool/db_1.itm)
6 04:19:51.718 :error: PANIC, Leaving bucket /d2/dnews/spool/db_1.itm, failed=4 ok=0
6 04:19:51.718 :info: Leaving bucket /d2/dnews/spool/db_1.itm, failed=4 ok=0
6 04:19:51.720 :info: Next oldest bucket that was being used 3
6 04:19:51.720 :info: Rebuild open /d2/dnews/spool/db_3.itm
6 04:19:51.848 :info: rebuild closing bucket (/d2/dnews/spool/db_3.itm)
6 04:19:51.848 :error: PANIC, Leaving bucket /d2/dnews/spool/db_3.itm, failed=101
ok=0
6 04:19:51.849 :info: Leaving bucket /d2/dnews/spool/db_3.itm, failed=101 ok=0
6 04:19:51.850 :info: Next oldest bucket that was being used 4
6 04:19:51.850 :info: Rebuild open /d2/dnews/spool/db_4.itm
6 04:19:51.876 :info: rebuild closing bucket (/d2/dnews/spool/db_4.itm)
6 04:19:51.876 :error: PANIC, Leaving bucket /d2/dnews/spool/db_4.itm, failed=22 ok=0
6 04:19:51.876 :info: Leaving bucket /d2/dnews/spool/db_4.itm, failed=22 ok=0
6 04:19:51.877 :info: Next oldest bucket that was being used 5
6 04:19:51.878 :info: Rebuild open /d2/dnews/spool/db_5.itm
6 04:19:52.127 :info: rebuild closing bucket (/d2/dnews/spool/db_5.itm)
6 04:19:52.127 :error: PANIC, Leaving bucket /d2/dnews/spool/db_5.itm, failed=190
ok=0
....etc... for a total of 22 PANIC messages. Connecting to this moved news
server, much of my original news is gone. The error messages really don't
tell me what went wrong. The db files are the same on both machines.
(I did a checksum on a few just to be sure.)
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-IAN! Ian! D. Allen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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