Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!russell From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: addmissing dies with assert in histslash (Cnews) Message-ID: <1991Feb7.010455.1634@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> Date: 7 Feb 91 01:04:55 GMT Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand. Lines: 20 When I run addmissing I get the following message (after about an hours cpu time has been used). Assertion failed: last != NULL, file histslash.c, line 29 /usr/lib/newsbin/maint/addmissing: 3549 abort - core dumped From the source of histslash I have worked out that this happens when it is feed a blank or null line. Input to histslash comes from comm of the list of articles on disk and list of articles in the history file --- why this should have blank lines in it is beyond me. (It shouldn't ofcourse thats why its crashing!!) Would it be safe to alter histslash to ignore blank lines rather than give up? (By ignore I mean filter them out.) Thanks Russell. -- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.