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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: errors from news
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.135902.10465@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 13:59:02 GMT
References: <1991Mar10.140425.3978@unixland.uucp>
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bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:

>What does the following mean from CNEWS?

>relaynews: unbatcher out of synch, tossing: So 5 p lowedu!hft
>relaynews: unbatcher out of synch, tossing: From:w1s w.u, AlSo y2to : <qmaultinS OUthirI $35
>relaynews: unbatcher out of synch, tossing: Re.O<19ct5
>relaynews: unbatcher out of synch, tossing: qmet
>relaynews: unbatcher out of synch, tossing: insuuNew gh .
>relaynews: unbatcher out of synch, tossing: 
>relaynews: unbatcher out of synch, tossing: -Atuld b!uda phftrea baothCan Kothir:30k ym ituEVe so
>[lots of others deleted]

>Did I get some garbled news maybe?  I have been having some trouble getting
>a new disk installed, maybe there's some corruption ... or is this a typical
>news problem (I haven't seen it before).  Is it like the "inbound news
>is garbled" message that Bnews spits out occasionally?

>And how about these:

>relaynews: can't link to `talk/politics/misc/7541'
>relaynews: can't link to `misc/headlines/3633'
>relaynews: can't link to `alt/activism/5646'
>relaynews: can't link to `alt/desert-storm/10380'

>These files already exist, and are owned by news.  There is no reason
>given for the "can't link".  What would the typcial reason be ??

Hi Bill - sorry to break the bad news - but in our installation that was
a direct result of a drive going bad.  We go the exact same messages and
notes in the errlog --

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