Re: [leafnode-list] leafnode 1.9.25 bugs?

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> For what it is worth, I am using 1.9.24 with nothing to complain about. 
 My
> only problems were cured by switching my upstream server.

Ah. It turns out I found the problem, and it has already been fixed in
1.9.25 and above (released end of August). It was this change from the
ChangeLog:
2002-07-11  Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx>

          * fetchnews.c: When updating the active file fails, restore the
          old active file contents in order not to loose low/high marks.
So I'd recommend you upgrade because it was a right PITA to fix once this
happened!
My problem was evidently that the upstream server just occasionally timed
out when refetching the entire active file. There was no error checking in
fetchnews.c before the above change and the article counts were all reset
to 1 - the old counts were never merged in.
Jifl

> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:49, you wrote:
>
>>Matthias Andree wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>is anybody of the dear readers of this list pondering about whether to
>>>write a bug report against leafnode 1.9.24 or 1.9.25? Now is the right
>>>time, otherwise, 1.9.26 which carries only the lost+found bugfix (to
>>>what William Grinolds reported) and some added log messages in case of
>>>trouble.
>>
>>Very belated I know since 1.9.30 is next in line, but OOI with 1.9.24 I've
>>had two problems where *every* group in groupinfo has had its high/low
>>water marks set to 1 1. Annoyingly the logs don't say anything out of the
>>ordinary, and I can't pin down the exact time it happened, although it may
>>coincide with the upstream server disconnecting. The next time fetchnews
>>runs, it downloads with new article numbers starting from 3 (not 1,
>>oddly). This is a pain to subsequently clear up :-|.
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