On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:43:06AM +0100, Patrick Vervoorn wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Nick Leverton wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:30:22PM +0100, Marco van Loon wrote: > > > > > > On infrequent/erratic occasions I've apparently had newsservers acting > > > a bit weird, resulting in things like the following in my newsrc(s): > > > alt.binaries.pictures.anime: 1-1075286495 > > > alt.binaries.sounds.anime: 1-1075286495 > > > > It's a pretty nasty bug, and I've almost switched away from trn on more > > than one occasion because of it. Unfortunately if I have five thousand > > postings to read again, it's quicker to go through them and recover my > > pointers in trn than in any other newsreader. Archiving my .newsrc > > every night helps ... > > > > It seems to be to do with dropped connections or where the server closes > > the connection, but trn copes with the normal case, this is a rare > > exception (though often enough to be irritating!). It happens every > > couple of months here. > > I can only confirm this bug, and it indeed seems to happen when the server > (or the connection with the server), for one reason or another goes away > while trn is running. Nah, in those kinds of cases trn 4.0 test72 just hangs (kill -9 needed) for me; I don't seem to experience absurdly high article numbers in those cases. Using my crappy ISP newsserver I've experienced trn lockups because of crashed connection a few dozens of times, but not a single time 'absurdly high article numbers'... > It then tries to get lots of empty articles, also > writes messages of this kind to the console, and when you close trn, it > usually sets the high watermark of lots of groups to some insanely high > number. > As far as I have been able to determine, this is not caused by the > newsserver returning strange/large message numbers... Well, I seem to remember once telnetting to a newsserver and getting too high article numbers in response to a GROUP <newsgroup>, so maybe our problems are not exactly the same... I think I'll compile test76 or CVS with DEBUG turned on and run a while like that to see if that results in useful info. > Patrick. > (Still a quite happy trn user, since there's nothing better to be gotten > for reading news..) Yeah, I agree: trn for reading and posting text messages and downloading binaries (with nget as backup for quirky servers etc.) and my own shell script for posting binaries is all I need for usenet. :) Marco van Loon ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/
