Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!arc!chet From: chet@arc.UUCP (Chet Wood) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: why did my news software get stuck? Keywords: long Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 89 18:58:20 GMT Sender: news@arc.UUCP Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 81 I installed Patch 18 to B news software on Sept. 13. Everything was working fine until this article came in and created some kind of lock: Sep 16 00:08 apple received <1282@tekbspa.UUCP> ng misc.headlines subj 'Re: Sweden is not free?!? (Was: more stuff about socialism and such rot)' from mathon@tekbspa.UUCP (John D. Mathon ) cron ran expire and trimlib at 1 AM successfully, but almost all the news that came in from then until the system was rebooted Monday morning was not posted, but remained spooled in the uucp/D. directory. I also found some news in the news spool/.rnews directory which was put there while expire was running. Expire did not run as scheduled on Sep. 17 or Sep. 18, though cron was certainly working-- the uucp cron entry busily deleted the X.* files corresponding to the stuck D. files. Following are relevant entries from various log files. Any suggestions would be appreciated. The system is running on a Sun-3/280 under SunOS 4.0.1. **** More **** *** from errlog *** Sep 17 08:52 <1282@tekbspa.UUCP> inews: Article <1282@tekbspa.uucp> locked up Sep 17 09:02 <1282@tekbspa.UUCP> inews: Article <1282@tekbspa.uucp> locked up *** from log *** (no entries between 00:08 and 13:29) Sep 16 13:29 apple received ng comp.sys.apple subj 'NDA's & tools' from wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) Sep 17 08:52 apple Article <1282@tekbspa.uucp> locked up Sep 17 08:52 apple Duplicate article <7059@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> rejected. Path: apple!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!gremlin!jarrett *** (about a dozen similar "duplicate article" entries here) *** Sep 17 08:52 apple received <1282@tekbspa.UUCP> ng misc.headlines subj 'Re: Sweden is not free?!? (Was: more stuff about socialism and such rot)' from mathon@tekbspa.UUCP (John D. Mathon ) Sep 17 08:52 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 08:53 apple received <26451@dhw68k.cts.com> ng comp.binaries.mac subj 'Buckaroo Banzai Sounds (part 3 of 4)' from moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Sep 17 08:53 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 08:54 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 08:55 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 08:56 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 08:57 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 08:58 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 08:59 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 09:00 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 09:01 apple waiting on lock for /tmp/L<1282@tekbspa.uucp> Sep 17 09:02 apple Article <1282@tekbspa.uucp> locked up Sep 17 09:02 apple received <1282@tekbspa.UUCP> ng misc.headlines subj 'Re: Sweden is not free?!? (Was: more stuff about socialism and such rot)' from mathon@tekbspa.UUCP (John D. Mathon ) Sep 18 07:41 apple received <855@madnix.UUCP> ng comp.sys.amiga subj 'Re: Bay area Amiga dealers' from perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) *** from /var/adm/messages *** Sep 17 08:48:24 arc login: ROOT LOGIN ttyp0 FROM sparcy Sep 17 08:54:37 arc login: ROOT LOGIN console Sep 17 14:29:41 arc login: ROOT LOGIN ttyp0 FROM mac Sep 17 18:42:19 arc login: ROOT LOGIN ttyp0 FROM maxi Sep 17 22:30:13 arc vmunix: Portmapper not responding; still trying Sep 17 22:30:13 arc vmunix: zs1: silo overflow Sep 17 22:30:13 arc vmunix: Portmapper not responding; still trying Sep 17 22:30:13 arc vmunix: Portmapper not responding; still trying Sep 17 22:30:14 arc vmunix: Portmapper ok Sep 17 22:30:15 arc last message repeated 2 times Sep 17 22:30:16 arc vmunix: Portmapper not responding; still trying Sep 17 22:30:16 arc last message repeated 3 times Sep 18 00:00:16 arc vmunix: Portmapper not responding; still trying *** ad nauseum until system rebooted by system administration at 07:40*** then the news starts flowing normally. *** uucp LOGFILE shows news coming in and rnews starting up regularly with no reported problems throughout the period. *** Thanks, Chet... -- Chet Wood ~ (408)727-3357 arc!chet@apple.COM . Advansoft Research Corporation chet@arc.UUCP . 4301 Great America Parkway apple!arc!chet . Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA