[leafnode-list] Leafnode 1.9.50rc1 not fetching articles?

[William Hooper]

I've noticed a major drop-off in new messages lately with 1.9.50rc1, so I
did a test.  I ran a fetchnews -vvvvv (log posted below) but received no
new articles.  In fact it doesn't even appear to be checking for some
groups.  For example, the one gmane group (there should be two) is checked
on the Earthlink server, but there is nothing about it on the gmane
server.

I then downgraded to 1.9.49rel and it is fetching new articles (still
going as I type this).  Anyone else see this?


Pardon the major length:

[whooper at snowball noarch]$ sudo /usr/sbin/fetchnews -vvvvv
leafnode 1.9.50.rc1: verbosity level is 5, debugmode is 1
try_lock(timeout=5), fqdn="snowball.private.whooper.org"
Trying to connect to news.east.earthlink.net:nntp ... connected.
Using STAT <message-ID> command on this server.
news.east.earthlink.net: 0 articles posted
Getting new newsgroups from news.east.earthlink.net
Reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.east.earthlink.net
alt.os.linux: no new articles
alt.os.linux.redhat: no new articles
gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.documentation: no such group
Disconnected from news.east.earthlink.net.
Trying to connect to msnews.microsoft.com:nntp ... connected.
Using STAT <message-ID> command on this server.
msnews.microsoft.com: 0 articles posted
Getting new newsgroups from msnews.microsoft.com
Reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/msnews.microsoft.com
alt.os.linux: no such group
Disconnected from msnews.microsoft.com.
Trying to connect to news.grc.com:nntp ... connected.
Using STAT <message-ID> command on this server.
news.grc.com: 0 articles posted
Getting new newsgroups from news.grc.com
Reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.grc.com
alt.os.linux: no such group
Disconnected from news.grc.com.
Trying to connect to news.freshmeat.net:nntp ... connected.
Using STAT <message-ID> command on this server.
Not posting to news.freshmeat.net: non-permission
Getting new newsgroups from news.freshmeat.net
Reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.freshmeat.net
alt.os.linux: no such group
Disconnected from news.freshmeat.net.
Trying to connect to news.gmane.org:nntp ... connected.
Using STAT <message-ID> command on this server.
news.gmane.org: 0 articles posted
Getting new newsgroups from news.gmane.org
Reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.gmane.org
alt.os.linux: no such group
Disconnected from news.gmane.org.
wrote active file with 33792 lines
Started process to update overview data in the background.
Network activity has finished.
[whooper at snowball noarch]$

-- 
William Hooper