List archive broken?

Hi,

I ust tried the list archive

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.rt.user

but looks like there is only some other trash?

Best seems to be

http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.linux.rt.user

But there only the last postings seem to be accessible. And clicking on one of the links there, gives the correct text, but sender and date is broken as well, like "zako | 11 Apr 23:56".

Dirk

It looks like some spammers got a hold of the input address for the gmane.org site for the linux-rt-users mailing list and directed spam directly into gmane.org. That seems the to be most likely case given that the spam isn't present at the mail-archive.com archive site nor for those of us directly subscribed to the linux-rt-users mailing list:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]

It looks like the spam messages were deleted, probably when someone reported the messages as Spam on the gmane.org web interface. However, it looks like the index files weren't adjusted at
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.rt.user web site. The blog.gmane.org site is in slightly better condition; the top level page isn't showing anything useful, but the month of December page seems to show recent messages:

	http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.rt.user/month=20061201

Interestingly enough, the list of messages found here:

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.rt.user

only has spam, and doesn't have anything newer than December 11th. So I'm guessing that the spam was elimiated, but at least some of the web-based index files aren't being updated for the past week or so.

Fortunately, it looks like the mail-archive.com archive site is working OK, and I have my own personal copy of mailing list archived (although I don't have anything set up to make it available on the web site; but it's could be used to setup up a pipermail site or I can make it available to gmane.org if for some reason their data files are scrambled beyond the need for recovery --- what, me paranoid?)

I've cc'ed Lars Magne Ingerigsten, who is one of the administrators for gmane.org, in the hopes he can take a look at things and straighten them out. Lars, let me know if I can help in any way.

- Ted

The reason for the odd behaviour of
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.rt.user is a unfortunately that the server that runs daemon that generates the web interface ran into some rather large problems last week. It's an x86_64 machine, and it started complaining about running out of IOMMU space, and therefore couldn't write to disk once in a while.

Dec 10 11:50:54 deer kernel: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 520192 bytes at device 0000:00:07.0
Dec 10 11:50:54 deer last message repeated 4 times
Dec 10 11:50:54 deer kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000
Dec 10 11:50:54 deer kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 37085367
Dec 10 11:50:54 deer kernel: printk: 4 messages suppressed.
Dec 10 11:50:54 deer kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 4635663
Dec 10 11:50:54 deer kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1

I didn't notice for a while, and when I did, the thread index the web interface uses was b0rken.

Normally I would just have started a thread rebuild, but it takes about five days for that to complete, and I'm going away on holiday in three days, so it didn't seem like a good idea.

Perhaps I could just switch it over to the backup daemon. That, unfortunately is under powered now that traffic has grown so much, but it might be worth a try.

Yup, looks ok there now:

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.rt.user

(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  [email protected] * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen