Help! NewsGrazer just stopped working!

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3 total messages Started by Douglas Scott Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:31

#558

Author: Douglas Scott
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:31

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This morning I started up NewsGrazer as I have every weekday for the past
eight months, and it got to the point where the status bar says it is reading
my active newsgroups, and then quits completely without any messages at all!

I am posting this via rn, which I built so that I may read mail from home.  It
and NewsGrazer have coexisted on my machine without any problems for six
months.  The only clue I have is that I always get a message listing newsgroups that have been "found again in active list" -- but I have always gotten this,
and it seems to be due to the threading program I use with trn--but again, I
have never had a problem before.

I checked to see if that wierd group with the ":" in the name was in my
.newsrc, and I could not find it there, so I have no clue.  I tried reducing
the number of subscribed groups, and that did not help.  Gdb gave me no clues,
since there are no symbols in the executable.

Please respond via email, since news isnt much fun with rn.

Help!


-- 
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>

Re: Help! NewsGrazer just stopped working!

#560

Author: Douglas Scott
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:15

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Sorry I didnt take the time to read the other articles on the crashing problem
(see what happens when NG goes down?).  I'll try getting rid of the new
overly-long newsgroups from our active list.


-- 
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>

Re: Help! NewsGrazer just stopped working!

#562

Author: Patrick J. LoPresti
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:23

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We had the same problem here.

NewsGrazer barfs on newsgroups with more than 10 components to their names.   
Someone created groups named  
"alt.pop.will.eat.itself.the.poppies.are.on.patrol" and  
"alt.pop.will.eat.itself.X.Y.and.Z.electrix.sunshine.mix" (or something like  
that).

Either of these will give NG a segmentation fault.

Have your sysadmin delete the offending groups.  Although people at NeXT have  
fixed the problem, they are not allowed to release it due to "new company  
policy".

Have a nice day.

-Pat

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