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Haider Rizvi <haider@nouce.ca.ibm.com> writes:

> Replying to myself :-)
>
> I resolved the problem by removing the cached articles and the whole
> /d/News/agent/nntp/dbtnews.torolab.ibm.com/comp/databases/ibm-db2/
> directory.  I don't know what could have caused it to start with.

Do you have a copy of the .agentview file in that directory?  Most
likely it was corrupt, but it might be useful to see in what why, for
future reference.