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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


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