Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!ernest!lae
From: lae@ernest.UUCP (Alan Edmonds)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Help with inode problem with News 2.11 PL 17
Message-ID: <890@ernest.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 19:45:29 GMT
Reply-To: lae@ernest.UUCP (Alan Edmonds)
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Dallas TX
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I have an intermitent free inode problem unbatching a compressed news
feed.  During a rnews -U run from cron, I start getting the following
errors in the log file.


Mar 16 13:08	killer	received <451@corpane.UUCP> ng rec.autos subj 'Driver Testing (was Re: Worst highway events)' from sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Mar 16 13:08	killer	Cannot open /usr/spool/news/.tmp/.ara29834 (w): No space left on device
Mar 16 13:08	killer	received <506@skep2.ATT.COM> ng sci.space.shuttle subj 'Re: List of Shuttle missions' from slr@skep2.ATT.COM (Shelley.L.Rosenbaum.[ho95c])
Mar 16 13:08	killer	Cannot open /usr/spool/news/.tmp/.ara29835 (w): No space left on device
Mar 16 13:08	killer	received <452@corpane.UUCP> ng rec.games.frp subj 'Re: 25 Types of Players.' from sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Mar 16 13:08	killer	Cannot open /usr/spool/news/.tmp/.ara29836 (w): No space left on device

The errlog file:

Mar 16 13:08	<451@corpane.UUCP>	inews: Cannot open /usr/spool/news/.tmp/.ara29834 (w): No space left on device
Mar 16 13:08	<506@skep2.ATT.COM>	inews: Cannot open /usr/spool/news/.tmp/.ara29835 (w): No space left on device
Mar 16 13:08	<452@corpane.UUCP>	inews: Cannot open /usr/spool/news/.tmp/.ara29836 (w): No space left on device
Mar 16 13:08	<507@skep2.ATT.COM>	inews: Cannot open /usr/spool/news/.tmp/.ara29837 (w): No space left on device
Mar 16 13:08	<42423@clyde.ATT.COM>	inews: Cannot open /usr/spool/news/.tmp/.ara29838 (w): No space left on device
Mar 16 13:08	<42424@clyde.ATT.COM>	inews: Cannot open /usr/spool/news/.tmp/.ara29840 (w): No space left on device


I have a seperate partition for /usr/spool/news and it looks like this:

/usr/spool/news (/dev/dsk/c1d3s0 ):    34338 blocks    19117 i-nodes
                   total:   114146 blocks   32000 i-nodes

I seem to have plenty of room (and inodes).
DUring the run, I start getting the "out of space" errors and
a df shows 0 inodes avalable.  I kill rnews, umount /usr/spool/news
and run fsck on it.  fsck say "FREE INODE COUNT WRONG IN SUPER-BLK FIX ?"
or something like that.  I say yes and remount it.
The mounted filesystem says 19117 inodes free.

I figure it's either a bad block on the disk in the super-blk area,
a bug in news (or my version), or another program corrupting the
super-blk.

Any ideas ?  Is this a problem with news ?

I am running System V release 3.0 and news 2.11 patchlevel 17.

This is a real irritating problem.  I would appreciate any
insight offered.

Thanks in advance.
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Alan Edmonds                       Texas Instruments, Inc.
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