Hi everyone,

I was recently out of town for a few weeks and tried logging onto my own BBS remotely. But I was unable to post messages. I kept on getting errors like this:

Writing Index...
!ERROR writing /sbbs/data/subs/welcome
The sysop has been notified.


When I check my error log, I see this:

Sat Jun 23 2018 05:29 pm guardian.synchro.net
term Node 2 !ERROR 2 (No such file or directory) in postmsg.cpp line 355 (postmsg) writing "/sbbs/data/subs/welcome" access=-206 info=smb_addmsghdr index file length (920) unexpected (900) (useron=Kirkman)

What does this mean, and how do I fix it? I tried upgrading to the latest code from CVS, but there's no difference.

--Josh

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Re: Problems posting
By: Kirkman to All on Sat Jun 23 2018 05:33 pm

What does this mean, and how do I fix it? I tried upgrading to the latest code from CVS, but there's no difference.

Still not sure exactly what happened or why, but I managed to fix it with the following command:

fixsmb /sbbs/data/subs/welcome

--Josh

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Re: Problems posting
By: Kirkman to All on Sat Jun 23 2018 05:33 pm

I was recently out of town for a few weeks and tried logging onto my own BBS remotely. But I was unable to post messages. I kept on getting errors like this:

Writing Index...
!ERROR writing /sbbs/data/subs/welcome
The sysop has been notified.

When I check my error log, I see this:

Sat Jun 23 2018 05:29 pm guardian.synchro.net
term Node 2 !ERROR 2 (No such file or directory) in postmsg.cpp line 355 (postmsg) writing "/sbbs/data/subs/welcome" access=-206 info=smb_addmsghdr index file length (920) unexpected (900) (useron=Kirkman)

What does this mean, and how do I fix it? I tried upgrading to the latest code from CVS, but there's no difference.

Are you trying to reply to a message or writing a new message? If you're replying, are you using the stock Synchronet reader interface or another reader script? I've seen a similar error in earlier versions of my message reader when my message reader was trying to save a message using an 'expanded' message header, but that error says it's the "index file length" that was larger than expected.. So I'm not sure. I saw your other post saying fixsmb fixed it, so perhaps there was just some messagebase corruption.

Nightfox

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Re: Problems posting
By: Kirkman to All on Sat Jun 23 2018 05:33 pm

Hi everyone,

I was recently out of town for a few weeks and tried logging onto my own BBS remotely. But I was unable to post messages. I kept on getting errors like this:

Writing Index...
!ERROR writing /sbbs/data/subs/welcome
The sysop has been notified.

When I check my error log, I see this:

Sat Jun 23 2018 05:29 pm guardian.synchro.net
term Node 2 !ERROR 2 (No such file or directory) in postmsg.cpp line 355 (postmsg) writing "/sbbs/data/subs/welcome" access=-206 info=smb_addmsghdr index file length (920) unexpected (900) (useron=Kirkman)

What does this mean, and how do I fix it? I tried upgrading to the latest code from CVS, but there's no difference.

Somehow that message base index file was corrupted. 'fixsmb' rebuilds msg base indexes.

digital man

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Re: Problems posting
By: Nightfox to Kirkman on Sun Jun 24 2018 10:18 pm

Are you trying to reply to a message or writing a new message? If you're replying, are you using the stock Synchronet reader interface or another reader script? I've seen a similar error in earlier versions of my message

These were new messages I tried and failed to post. But, yes, I prefer SlyEdit and I'm using 1.54 right now.

--Josh

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Re: Problems posting
By: Kirkman to Nightfox on Tue Jun 26 2018 10:58 pm

Are you trying to reply to a message or writing a new message? If
you're replying, are you using the stock Synchronet reader interface
or another reader script? I've seen a similar error in earlier
versions of my message

These were new messages I tried and failed to post. But, yes, I prefer SlyEdit and I'm using 1.54 right now.

SlyEdit is only a message editor, it's not a message reader. The error you
had mentioned would be coming from the reader, not SlyEdit.

Nightfox

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Re: Problems posting
By: Nightfox to Kirkman on Wed Jun 27 2018 09:31 am

SlyEdit is only a message editor, it's not a message reader. The error you had mentioned would be coming from the reader, not SlyEdit.

The error was generated when I tried to post a message using SlyEdit, although it doesn't seem to have been SlyEdit itself that generated the error, but rather "postmsg.cpp".

In any event, since I used fixsmb, things have been okay.

--Josh

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