Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: reggers@UWOVAX.UWO.CA (Reg Quinton) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Help!: %RMS-E-PRV/%RMS-F-IFI Message-ID: <0616241925@uwovax.uwo.ca> Date: 12 Jul 89 14:18:45 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Reg Quinton Lines: 21 X-cc: Colleen Bretzlaff , gerard@uwovax.uwo.ca Help! I'm having a very bizarre problem this morning with news V5.8a. Our system went down last night with a power failure during (I think) a news skim operation. This morning when users try running news they get: $ news %RMS-E-PRV, insufficient priviledge or file protection violation %RMS-F-IFI, invalide internal file identifier $ The funny thing is the user NEWS (who owns all the news trees and has the news manager privs) and the user SYSTEM (who also has manager privs) can run news without any problems at all! Oh yes, news is installed correctly, logicals are defined, files are all protected ok, and so on. I'm currently running a skim operation in hopes of resolving the problem. I have run into this problem before with v5.0 (I think) and had to back out of current news.items/groups, etc. files to resolve the problem. I'd rather not do that (of course). If anyone has any ideas about what's going on I'd appreciate the help.