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- From: jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov(L J "Jim" Kiraly)
- Subject: Re: NewsGrazer 72.3 problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.220404.24406@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:04:04 GMT
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- Vince Netz writes
- > I upgraded to NS 3.0 a while back, and moved my .newsrc file and
- > NewsGrazer 72.3 to the new environment. For the first 2 weeks or so, it
- > worked great. Then intermittently at first, NewsG began to crash
- > without warning. Cuz it happened infrequently I shrugged it off, but
- > last week it began crashing every time after running for about 15
- > minutes, sooner if I did any posting. Today it crashed in about 3
- > minutes or less, and I couldn't even get a short post written. Oh a
- > whim I deleted my .newsrc file, and viola it now runs perfectly (witness
- > this post!). Has anyone else noticed this? Does .newsrc get corrupted
-
- I have been using NG for years without any problem except for this past
- weekend. My problem seems similar to what you are describing. You can
- verify this by running netstat in a terminal window and looking at the NG
- receive queue- NG locks up when you get just over 1000 packets waiting.
- My solution was to remove all of the defaults for NG (using DefaultMgr or
- dremove), and simply restarting it and re-setting preferences. Seems a
- little drastic- but I couldn't see what was wrong otherwise. If you are
- reluctant to do this, first create a new account on your system and see if
- NG runs OK from the new user's directory- if it does, my fix should
- correct your problem.
-
- We have also had an intermittent problem with malformed posts that are
- only within out local domain. Somehow these are allowed to propagate
- locally, but can't be read by newsgrazer- which crashes. For these, I
- directly edit the .newsrc file to change the article count for the
- offensive newsgroup.
-
- Jim
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