Inn won't start after upgrading from 6.2 to pinstripe. The startup scripts produce: (root)/# /etc/rc.d/init.d/innd start Starting INND system: [ OK ] (root)/# /etc/rc.d/init.d/innd status innd dead but subsys locked
The logs produced looked like Sep 16 17:10:24 rompa innd: SERVER cant dbzinit /var/lib/news/history No such file or directory So I checked /var/lib/news and saw that history.pag and history.dir were renamed as history.???.rpmsave. I removed the .rpmsave from the end and the innd finally got up and running. The history appears to be messed up however, and no posts to the server can be made. Log Sep 16 17:21:33 rompa innd: SERVER throttle No such file or directory writing history database file -- throttling So I totally removed the history files and reinstalled the rpm, which placed some correct entries in the history.dir file. I think I have it running again.
This should be ok by now. Unfortunately the number of possible storage mechanisms has increased a lot, so that the newest rpm cannot update older inn versions and just keep running without user intervention. Apart from that, updates to further future rpms should be ok.