Debian Bug report logs - #5196
could not fetch active file

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE (Martin Schulze)

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: could not fetch active file

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 96 08:55 MET

Package: nn
Version: 6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1-01

I don't know why, but obviously this nn doesn't work.

All I get is:

$ nn
could not fetch active file

$ cat /etc/news/server
nacken.north.de
$ hostname -f
nacken.north.de

After stracing nn again (I have reported this half a year ago!!) 
I saw, that nn want's to read /usr/lib/news/active again.

Here are excerpts:

[..]
stat("/var/spool/nn/DATA/0", 0x8037260) = -1 ERRNO_2 (No such file or directory)
[..]
open("/etc/news/server", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16, ...}) = 0
brk(0x8046000)                          = 0x8046000
read(3, "nacken.north.de\n", 4096)      = 16
close(3)                                = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="nacken", ...}) = 0
[..]
open("/usr/lib/news/active", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ERRNO_2 (No such file or directory)
fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(4, 194), ...}) = 0
brk(0x804e000)                          = 0x804e000
ioctl(1, 0x5401, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
write(1, "could not fetch active file\n", 28) = 28
write(1, "\n", 1)                       = 1

So obvously it doesn't work correct. Hopefully this time this bug will be corrected!

Regards,

	Joey

Message #10 received at 5196-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 5196-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:01:21 +0100 (CET)

This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer

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