Re: [leafnode-list] findgroup ... called without prior readactive()

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Marshall <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> findgroup("uk.religion.christian") called without prior readactive()
> 5447 Aborted  (core dumped) sudo -u news /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews -vvv
>
> on any newsserver, I eventually tried moving the articles out of out.going
> and another fetchnews which did another active group referesh and this time
> - unfortuately for bug squshing - all the servers refreshed and I then
> replaced the outgoing messages and they were posted.
>
> I assume the crash is an unfortunate side effect of the (very welcome!)
> send outgoing before retrieve incoming change?

I think so.

> #3  0x0804ebbb in findgroup () at activutil.c:223
> #4  0x080562f9 in checkstatus (groups=0x0, status=109 'm') at moderated.c:98
> #5  0x0804caec in postarticles (cursrv=0x8064c88) at fetchnews.c:1541
> #6  0x0804d24c in do_server (forceactive=1) at fetchnews.c:1820
> #7  0x0804d7c5 in main (argc=-1073744044, argv=0xbffff750) at fetchnews.c:2069
> #8  0x40072082 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6

Makes some sense.

I'll change leafnode-2 so  it reads the active file before trying to
post and it will not try to post without active file. (It needs to know
which groups are moderated to avoid posting an unapproved article twice
- we don't want to mailbomb the moderator - and for that purpose we need
the active file.)

Expect a new snapshot in a few minutes.

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