[4957] in SIPB bug reports
GRIPE about XRN 6.18beta3 (patch level 0)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard D. Hamlin)
Fri Oct 21 12:13:50 1994
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 94 11:34 EDT
From: rdhamlin@solar-energy.mit.edu (Richard D. Hamlin)
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
X VERSION, RELEASE, and PATCH LEVEL:
X11R4
CLIENT MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM:
80486 running Linux 1.1.51
NEWS SYSTEM and VERSION:
InterNet
SYNOPSIS:
strange behavior while trying to read newsgroup sci.engr.mech
could not read at all for a while.
then many unread articles were suddenly missing/marked read.
DESCRIPTION:
sci.mech.engr, a news group I am subscribed to, had over 200 unread articles, but
I could not read them at all last night. This morning I was able to read the
newgroup, but there were only 7 unread articles. When I tried "List old" no more
articles appeared, but when I tried "Prev" the previous article appeared
(although it was marked read, even thought it should not have been). When I
pressed "List old" again the old messages dissappeared again, and I just saw the
seven new articles.
I am using the xrn that is currently in /mit/sipb/linuxbin.
error messages received:
Thu Oct 20 23:59:15 1994: Lost connection to the NNTP server, attempting to reconnect
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Thu Oct 20 23:59:22 1994: Reconnected to the NNTP server
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Thu Oct 20 23:59:28 1994: XRN: serious error, your NNTP server does not have XHDR support.
Either you are running a pre-1.5 NNTP server or XHDR has
not been defined in 'nntp/common/conf.h'
XRN requires XHDR support to run.
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Thu Oct 20 23:59:33 1994: No articles in `sci.engr.mech', probably killed or canceled
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Fri Oct 21 11:09:34 1994: Cannot get the group, it may have been deleted
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Fri Oct 21 11:10:35 1994: No articles in `sci.engr.mech', probably killed or canceled
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Fri Oct 21 11:10:43 1994: Lost connection to the NNTP server, attempting to reconnect
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Fri Oct 21 11:10:46 1994: Reconnected to the NNTP server
REPEAT BY:
I just clicked on sci.engr.mech, and then clicked on "read".
SAMPLE FIX:
[preferred, but not necessary. Please send context diffs (diff -c -b)]
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