Re: [leafnode-list] problems following getting newgroup list

[Robert Marshall <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Robert Marshall schrieb am 2004-02-14:
> 
>> (leafnode version 2.0.0.alpha20031221a; Gnus v5.10.3)
> 
> That's not the current alpha version ;-)
> 

I know, I know <Sybil Fawlty/>


>> I exited gnus and in the same emacs session tried again and got
>> 
>> Reading active file from localhost via nntp...
>> Cannot read partial active file from nntp server.
> 
> In how far is it "partial"? Was there a write error on the groupinfo
> file? 

Nothing apparent and I haven't so far found this error anywhere in the
gnus or leafnode sources
Though I do see this in syslog

Feb 14 17:39:14 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]: news.ntlworld.com: connecting to port nntp
Feb 14 17:39:15 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]:   trying:    address 194.168.222.19 port 119...
Feb 14 17:41:20 jailhouse kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=219.148.124.162 DST=213.104.252.146 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=39 ID=43151 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4883 DPT=3127 WINDOW=44620 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
Feb 14 17:41:23 jailhouse kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=219.148.124.162 DST=213.104.252.146 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=39 ID=44100 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4883 DPT=3127 WINDOW=44620 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
Feb 14 17:41:29 jailhouse kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=219.148.124.162 DST=213.104.252.146 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=39 ID=46091 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4883 DPT=3127 WINDOW=44620 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
Feb 14 17:42:24 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]:   cannot connect: Connection timed out
Feb 14 17:42:24 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]:   trying:    address 194.168.222.62 port 119...
Feb 14 17:42:24 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]:   connected: address 194.168.222.62 port 119.
Feb 14 17:42:24 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]: news.ntlworld.com: connected (200), banner: "200 ntlworld News Server (Typhoon v2.0.4.339)"
Feb 14 17:42:24 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]: news.ntlworld.com: getting newsgroups list
Feb 14 17:45:08 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]: news.ntlworld.com: read 32420 newsgroups
Feb 14 17:45:08 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]: news.ntlworld.com: getting newsgroup descriptions
Feb 14 17:45:17 jailhouse kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=211.96.225.115 DST=213.104.252.146 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=58288 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1875 DPT=3127 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 
Feb 14 17:45:21 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]: found 0 articles in out.going.
Feb 14 17:45:21 jailhouse fetchnews[6896]: news.ntlworld.com: 0 articles posted

I've left the shorewall log in though I doubt if it is relevant, dial up
dynamic ip so I've left the ip address there, note the timed out connection
before trying a different incarnation of news.ntlworld.com
Other than that only a few newsgroup name conflicts on the first server

> Is your /var space exhausted? (use df to check, although this
> condition may have cleared now after a texpire run or log rotations)

Difficult to tell now especially as logrotate runs on a Sunday morning
but there's currently 500meg free on /var and it has not been too
different for that for some weeks

df -hP /var
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5  1.1G  591M  436M  58% /var

> 
>> - the retrieval of the group lists (4 servers) appeared to have worked
>>   ok
>> exit emacs and try gnus in new session (having quit without saving from
>> gnus as the group state didn't look good!) and get the same error (partial
>> active file)
> 
> Could you mail me your gzip-ped or bzip2-ed
> /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo file (not to the list please!)
> 

...done off list, thanks, I've posted a message to gnu.emacs.gnus trying to see
if anyone else knows what's up, I can post, riun texpire and fetchnews but
the  reading interface is a little iffy (knode appears to be ok too)

Robert
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