Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:49:59 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INN users beware of ino_t change FreeBSD 11 to 12 Message-ID: <CAP7rwcgyS0c1rrPpB5vSfMC=%2Bg2O%2Bi-i1PKVaK0yMydd%2B6jo%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <slrnq25fqb.6gs.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <slrnq25fqb.6gs.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 4:40 PM Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote: > > User of INN (news/inn) should be aware of an issue when upgrading > from FreeBSD 11 to 12 with an existing news spool. > > If the overview database is in the tradindexed format, which is the > default, the group.index file consists of records with an ino_t > member. FreeBSD 12 has changed the size of the ino_t type, causing > an incompatible change in the database format. > > In my case, both innd and makehistory -O would hang on startup and > spin in a busy loop. > > To fix this, first truncate the overview/group.index file to size > zero and only then regenerate the history and overview databases > with makehistory -O. Hi Christian, Thanks for this! Can you please add this to /usr/ports/UPDATING? # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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