Re: pre112 - Y2K-like wraparound bug when creating/reading spool

Hi John,

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:34 PM, John E. Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Until this gets resolved, I beleive that it is a lien against the
> upcoming release.  Please try the latest version in the repository,
> which adds support for 64 bit server numbers.  If you compile a win32
> version, you will probably need to define HAVE_LONG_LONG in
> src/slrnconf.h.  Then if you run `slrn --version`, it should show
> something like:
>    .
>  Using 64 bit integers for article numbers.
>
> Please let me know if this resolves your problem.

My problem happens on linux; I don't run slrn on Windows other than to
test builds.

I just compiled a pre114 version and see the same behaviour.  I did
some more testing and I don't think it's an slrn problem - I think the
problem is in slrnpull.  I just deleted all remnants of the
rec.motorcycles.harley newsgroup in my spool and did a fresh pull.
Here's the slrnpull log:

  07/10/2008 01:07:15 Fetching articles for rec.motorcycles.harley.
  07/10/2008 01:07:16 The server may contain as many as 2126027913
articles in this group
  07/10/2008 01:07:16 Only examining last 300 articles since this is a new group
  07/10/2008 01:07:16 rec.motorcycles.harley: Retrieving articles
2126027840-2126027840.
  07/10/2008 01:07:16 rec.motorcycles.harley: No articles in specified range.

If I use slrn in --nntp mode, I get the latest article as:

  Xref: news.motzarella.org rec.motorcycles.harley:5503

Which is nowhere near 2126027840

Now it gets strange.  20 minutes later, I decided to try again, this
time with a --debug flag to log the server messages.  This time, it
worked, and continues to work fine:

  07/10/2008 01:27:48 Fetching articles for rec.motorcycles.harley.
  07/10/2008 01:27:48 The server may contain as many as 5277 articles
in this group
  07/10/2008 01:27:48 Only examining last 300 articles since this is a new group
  07/10/2008 01:27:48 rec.motorcycles.harley: Retrieving articles 5204-5503.
  07/10/2008 01:27:48 rec.motorcycles.harley: 300 articles available.
  07/10/2008 01:28:44 rec.motorcycles.harley: 300/300 (0 killed),
Time: 00:01:10, BPS: 10193

I'm sure it will stall again.  I will post the log next time it
happens, hoping to see if news.motzarella.org is a flakey server

/rudy

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