209641 - no newsdownload if newserver directory is missing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

I just added a newsserver (news.mozilla.org) and subscribed to a group.

I accidently deleted the news.mozilla.org directory under news and now I cant
download anything from the newsserver. Hightlighting the newsserver does NOTHING!...

20030616

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

I can see how many newspostings there are in the newsgroup via the folderpane.
But no newspostings appear in the mesasge page.

it's 100% a problem that the newsgroup directory doesn't exist. This could
affect some other users

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

yes... creating an empty "news.mozilla.org" directory fixed the problem.

Mozilla should auto create that directory

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

I think is failing in:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mailnews/news/src/nsNntpIncomingServer.cpp#867

883     PRBool exists;
884     rv = mHostInfoFile->Exists(&exists);
885     if (NS_FAILED(rv)) return rv;

and then it seems like this i failing:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mailnews/news/src/nsNntpIncomingServer.cpp#979

980   if (!aForceToServer) {
981     rv = LoadHostInfoFile();    
982     if (NS_FAILED(rv)) return rv;
983   }

not sure since I have no debugging option...

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

removing the directory it says:
###!!! ASSERTION: morkBool_kFalse: '0', file c:/mozilla/mozilla/db/mork/src/mork
Config.cpp, line 57

will investigate more...

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

taking

Comment 6

[Henrik Gemal]

Attachment: create the dir if it's not there

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

Comment on attachment 134976 [details] [diff] [review]
create the dir if it's not there

I'll check this in if you want.

Comment 8

[Henrik Gemal]

checkin: please do, please do...:)

Comment 9

[Henrik Gemal]

checkin: please do, please do...:)

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

fix checked in.