On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 4:40 PM Christian Weisgerber <na...@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 ad...@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
