Re: Bug#301020: tin: freeze after catchup

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:19:29PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: tin
> Version: 1:1.7.8+20050314-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> My .tin/newsrctable contains:
> 
> news.mozilla.org                .newsrc-mozilla mozilla
> 
> If I do a "tin -ag mozilla", then enter the group
> netscape.public.mozilla.calendar, I can read it, but when I do a
> catchup from the group index (c [Enter]), tin freezes. I can type
> Ctrl-\, but unfortunately, the core doesn't give much information:

it's realted to not having xref infos in the overview file and thus
tin is trying to use "XHDR XREF" instead,

| Your server does not have Xref: in its XOVER information.
| Tin will try to use XHDR XREF instead (slows down things a bit).

it hangs somewhere here:

#8  0x40169d6f in fgets () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9  0x08072930 in get_server (string=0x81ef918 ".", size=1022) at nntplib.c:916
#10 0x0808239d in tin_read (buffer=0x81ef918 ".", len=1022, fp=0x270f, 
    header=0) at read.c:228
#11 0x08082510 in tin_fgets (fp=0x270f, header=0) at read.c:357
#12 0x08072fbb in get_only_respcode (message=0x0, mlen=0) at nntplib.c:1422
#13 0x08073086 in get_respcode (message=0x0, mlen=0) at nntplib.c:1490
#14 0x08073184 in nntp_command (command=0xbfffea20 "XHDR XREF 44", 
    success=221, message=0x0, mlen=0) at nntplib.c:1553
#15 0x08091497 in read_xref_header (art=0x405dbb30) at xref.c:129
#16 0x08091586 in art_mark_xref_read (art=0x405dbb30) at xref.c:178

the 'same' error might occur on that server if using a filter entry
(against crossposts):

#8  0x40169d6f in fgets () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9  0x08072930 in get_server (string=0x81f4460 ".", size=1022) at
nntplib.c:916
#10 0x0808239d in tin_read (buffer=0x81f4460 ".", len=1022,
fp=0x270f, 
    header=0) at read.c:228
#11 0x08082510 in tin_fgets (fp=0x270f, header=0) at read.c:357
#12 0x08072fbb in get_only_respcode (message=0x0, mlen=0) at
nntplib.c:1422
#13 0x08073086 in get_respcode (message=0x0, mlen=0) at
nntplib.c:1490
#14 0x08073184 in nntp_command (command=0xbfffe9ec "XHDR XREF 704", 
    success=221, message=0x0, mlen=0) at nntplib.c:1553
#15 0x08091497 in read_xref_header (art=0x405e11c8) at xref.c:129
#16 0x08091586 in art_mark_xref_read (art=0x405e11c8) at xref.c:178

currently I have no idea what is going wrong and I don't know when
I'll find the time to look at this.

urs