[2072] in SIPB bug reports
RT: rn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Craig)
Tue Sep 3 22:28:29 1991
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: craig@ics.com
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 91 22:27:28 EDT
From: Chris Craig <crcraig@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
I'm not sure exactly what happened, but rn behaved rather badly
tonight. I was reading a newsgroup (alt.rock-n-roll.metal, both
times), when rn went off and starting grinding away CPU cycles.
Nothing I did could stop it, and since I was dialed in, I had to
disconnect. When I logged back in, it was still running, taking up
most of the CPU time. As you'll see in a bit, I think it was writing
out my .newsrc. I killed it and started again (big mistake). Again,
it did the same thing, except this time it caught a SEGSV and
attempted to restore my .newsrc. Well, that didn't work very well
either, because now both .oldnewsrc and .newsrc were trashed. You can
see what it did by looking in /mit/crcraig/Public/newsrc.bad. It
appears to be repeating the same sequence of articles.
I wish I could give you a core dump or something, but it never did.
It did repeat twice in the same newsgroup (not sure what article #,
but about 7-8 from the most recent at 10pm on 09/03). Now I have to
go and recreate my .newsrc :-(
Chris Craig
