1 INFO-VAX	Mon, 12 Apr 2004	Volume 2004 : Issue 202       Contents:& Re: OpenVMS 7.3-1 halts during install& Re: OpenVMS 7.3-1 halts during install& Re: OpenVMS 7.3-1 halts during install& Re: OpenVMS 7.3-1 halts during install2 Re: THE Top 10 List of Worst Business IT Decisions& Re: WEBES install failing on DCLTABLES  F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:01:53 +0200 - From: "J. Fragemann" <jfragemann@hotmail.com> / Subject: Re: OpenVMS 7.3-1 halts during install : Message-ID: <4079b22c$0$200$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk>   Hi Tom,   I DKA400 is the CD-ROM i'm trying to boot from. It's not the original drive  since I had to replace it ...   & Console log after booting the machine:    *** keyboard not plugged in ...! ff.fe.fd.fc.fb.fa.f9.f8.f7.f6.f5. + ef.df.ee.ed.ec.f4.eb.ea.e9.e8.e7.e6.....e5. ( V7.0-9, built on Mar 18 1999 at 13:25:37   >>>show dev D dka100.1.0.6.0             DKA100                        RZ26F  1Q04D dka400.4.0.6.0             DKA400     TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3701TA  2965 dva0.0.0.0.1               DVA0 > pka0.7.0.6.0               PKA0                  SCSI Bus ID 7   >>>show mem       64 Meg of System Memory7      Bank 0 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x0 =      Bank 1 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x2000000        Bank 2 = No Memory Detected     >>>show  auto_action          HALT # boot_dev             dka100.1.0.6.0 	 boot_file  boot_osflags         3 boot_reset           OFF# bootdef_dev          dka100.1.0.6.0 
 booted_dev booted_file  booted_osflags bus_probe_algorithm  old char_set             0 console              graphics  control_disfd        enable  control_idema        enable  control_irq11        scsi  control_irq12        mouse control_scsi_term    internal  controlp             OFF dump_dev enable_audit         OFF ffauto               OFF ffnext               OFF kbd_hardware_type    PCXAL language             30  language_name        Dansk license              MU  mopv3_boot           OFF os_type              OpenVMS= pal                  VMS PALcode V5.56-2, OSF PALcode X1.46-2  pci_parity           off pka0_disconnect      1 pka0_fast            1 pka0_host_id         7 quick_start          OFF scsi_poll            ON  srm2ctrl srm2dev  sys_serial_num tga_sync_green       0 timer_tps            1 tt_allow_login       1 tty_dev              00 version              V7.0-9 Mar 18 1999 13:25:37   >>>show pal = pal                  VMS PALcode V5.56-2, OSF PALcode X1.46-2      >>>show version 0 version              V7.0-9 Mar 18 1999 13:25:37     >>>show mem       64 Meg of System Memory7      Bank 0 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x0 =      Bank 1 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x2000000        Bank 2 = No Memory Detected     >>>sh hwrpb  HWRPB is at 2000   >>>show config   Firmware SRM Console: V7.0-9  ARC Console: 4.58 1 PALcode: VMS PALcode V5.56-2, OSF PALcode X1.46-2  Serial Rom: V4.6 Diag Rom: V1.2  	 Processor ( DECchip (tm) 21064A-2 233Mhz 512KB Cache   MEMORY      64 Meg of System Memory7      Bank 0 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x0 =      Bank 1 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x2000000        Bank 2 = No Memory Detected   PCI Bus 1      Bus 00  Slot 06: NCR     810 Scsi Controller F                                    pka0.7.0.6.0          SCSI Bus ID 7?                                    dka100.1.0.6.0         RZ26F H                                    dka400.4.0.6.0         TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-37   %      Bus 00  Slot 07: Intel SIO 82378     6      Bus 00  Slot 11: Digital ZLXp Graphics Controller     ISA 5 Slot Device Name  Type      Enabled  BaseAddr IRQ DMA  0   0 MOUSE  Embedded Yes 60 12            1 KBD  Embedded Yes 60 1             2 COM1  Embedded Yes 3f8 4             3 COM2  Embedded Yes 2f8 3             4 LPT1  Embedded Yes 3bc 7             5 FLOPPY  Embedded Yes 3f0 6 2            3   6 PBXDI  Singleport Yes 300 5   ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:47:54 GMT 4 From: brad@.gateway.2wire.net (Bradford J. Hamilton)/ Subject: Re: OpenVMS 7.3-1 halts during install - Message-ID: <uWjec.13873$_K3.50443@attbi_s53>   j In article <4079b22c$0$200$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk>, "J. Fragemann" <jfragemann@hotmail.com> writes: !snip! !>>>show config  ! 	 !Firmware  !SRM Console: V7.0-9 !ARC Console: 4.582 !PALcode: VMS PALcode V5.56-2, OSF PALcode X1.46-2 !Serial Rom: V4.6  !Diag Rom: V1.2  ! 
 !Processor) !DECchip (tm) 21064A-2 233Mhz 512KB Cache  !  !MEMORY  !     64 Meg of System Memory 8 !     Bank 0 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x0> !     Bank 1 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x2000000! !     Bank 2 = No Memory Detected  !  !PCI Bus2 !     Bus 00  Slot 06: NCR     810 Scsi ControllerG !                                   pka0.7.0.6.0          SCSI Bus ID 7 @ !                                   dka100.1.0.6.0         RZ26FI !                                   dka400.4.0.6.0         TOSHIBA CD-ROM  !XM-37 ! & !     Bus 00  Slot 07: Intel SIO 82378 !   8 I think that this chip will not allow for booting VMS...   !snip!  J __________________________________________________________________________A Bradford J. Hamilton                    "All opinions are my own" K bMradAhamiPltSon-at-coMmcAast.nPeSt     "Lose the MAPS, and replace '-at-'  0                                          with @"   ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:52:03 GMT 4 From: brad@.gateway.2wire.net (Bradford J. Hamilton)/ Subject: Re: OpenVMS 7.3-1 halts during install / Message-ID: <n_jec.117701$w54.833809@attbi_s01>   N Sorry, bad form...  I mis-read the config - he is not using the Intel SIO chip for running the CD-ROM.    oops...   d In article <uWjec.13873$_K3.50443@attbi_s53>, brad@.gateway.2wire.net (Bradford J. Hamilton) writes:k !In article <4079b22c$0$200$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk>, "J. Fragemann" <jfragemann@hotmail.com> writes:  !!snip!  !!>>>show config !!
 !!Firmware !!SRM Console: V7.0-9  !!ARC Console: 4.58 3 !!PALcode: VMS PALcode V5.56-2, OSF PALcode X1.46-2  !!Serial Rom: V4.6 !!Diag Rom: V1.2 !! !!Processor * !!DECchip (tm) 21064A-2 233Mhz 512KB Cache !! !!MEMORY !!     64 Meg of System Memory9 !!     Bank 0 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x0 ? !!     Bank 1 = 32 Mbytes(16 MB Per Simm) Starting at 0x2000000 " !!     Bank 2 = No Memory Detected !!	 !!PCI Bus 3 !!     Bus 00  Slot 06: NCR     810 Scsi Controller H !!                                   pka0.7.0.6.0          SCSI Bus ID 7A !!                                   dka100.1.0.6.0         RZ26F J !!                                   dka400.4.0.6.0         TOSHIBA CD-ROM !!XM-37  !!' !!     Bus 00  Slot 07: Intel SIO 82378  !! ! 9 !I think that this chip will not allow for booting VMS...  !  !!snip!  ! K !__________________________________________________________________________ B !Bradford J. Hamilton                    "All opinions are my own"L !bMradAhamiPltSon-at-coMmcAast.nPeSt     "Lose the MAPS, and replace '-at-' 1 !                                         with @"   J __________________________________________________________________________A Bradford J. Hamilton                    "All opinions are my own" K bMradAhamiPltSon-at-coMmcAast.nPeSt     "Lose the MAPS, and replace '-at-'  0                                          with @"   ------------------------------  + Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 01:16:39 +0000 (UTC) 7 From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) / Subject: Re: OpenVMS 7.3-1 halts during install ( Message-ID: <c5cqlm$4fq$1@pcls4.std.com>  / "J. Fragemann" <jfragemann@hotmail.com> writes:   H >Can this in any way be related to the fact that I use a generic toshiba >CD-ROM?  H It could be.  It used to be that VMS could only use CDROMs with 512 byte4 sectors, while CDROMs for PCs use 2048 byte sectors.  F They *may* have changed the scsi driver so that this is no longer true by 7.3-1 but I am uncertain.  H Anyway, does the crash dump display the contents of R0?  If so, post the0 content here, that'll give a clue what happened.     --   -Mike    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:54:55 +0200 , From: "Hans Vlems" <hvlems.dotweg@zonnet.nl>; Subject: Re: THE Top 10 List of Worst Business IT Decisions 8 Message-ID: <c5c4dl$2ad0$1@ID-143435.news.uni-berlin.de>  9 "Paul Sture" <nospam@sture.homeip.net> schreef in bericht 4 news:c5896n$2ng5pg$1@ID-132135.news.uni-berlin.de... > JF Mezei wrote:  > > Paul Sture wrote:  > > H > >>Thanks for the link. I also found the IBM bit interesting - I hadn'tD > >>realised that BG II was an influential advisor to the IBM board. > >  > > 5 > > How do you think Bill Gates jr got his contract ?  > : > The story I had heard was through his mother's contacts. > ) By getting married to BG II obviously :-)    ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:18:41 GMT > From: Michael Austin <maustin@no-more-spam.firstdbasource.com>/ Subject: Re: WEBES install failing on DCLTABLES < Message-ID: <BKhec.8295$TX2.3423@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com>   Alex Daniels wrote:   g > David Gray <police@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:<jlp570lbfaia0bjmj5tuc5f9ncl6p1rbse@4ax.com>...  >  >>Greetings group,   >> >>OpenVMS 7.3-2  >>Alpha server ES45  >>DEC AXPVMS WEBES V4.3-1  >> >>D >>Having problems installing WEBES on an Alpha server.  InstallationB >>goes fine until it tries to add the startup/shutdown commands to >>systartup_vms.     >> >>< >>Portion done: 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...90% >>  3 >>DESTA$STARTUP and DESTA$SHUTDOWN will be added to 5 >>system startup and shutdown procedures, by default. ? >>Answering NO will add DESTA_LOGICALS$STARTUP, for defining of A >>ONLY LOGICALS but won't start the DESTA Director during Reboot.  >>Do you want to add?[YES] >>  F >>%SET-E-OPENIN, error opening SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DCLTABLES.EXE;100 as >>input $ >>-SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHFILE, no such file >>  D >>%PCSI-E-EXEPSTFAIL, product supplied EXECUTE POSTINSTALL procedure >>failed+ >>-SET-E-OPENIN, error opening !AS as input $ >>%PCSI-E-OPFAILED, operation failedG >>Terminating is strongly recommended.  Do you want to terminate? [YES] H >>%PCSI-E-CANCEL_WIP, termination resulted in an incomplete modification >>to the system 1 >>%PCSI-E-S_OPCAN, operation cancelled by request E >>%PCSIUI-E-ABORT, operation terminated due to an unrecoverable error  >>condition ? >> OPERATION TERMINATED DUE TO AN UNRECOVERABLE ERROR CONDITION  >>B >>Is this likely to be an installed image version mismatch?    TheA >>version reported by the install utility is ;104 but the install  >>program is failing on ;100   >>7 >>$ install list SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]DCLTABLES.EXE/full   >>5 >>  DCLTABLES;104    Open Hdr Shared            Lnkbl * >>        Entry access count         = 178, >>        Current / Maximum shared   = 2 / 5( >>        Global section count       = 1 >> >>Any ideas anyone?  >>
 >>Cheers,  >>	Dave. >  > @ > Seems a bit odd, may be worth trying the latest version V4.3-2 > = > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/svctools/webes/index.html  >  >  > Alex  < also make sure you have the PCSI-200 patch installed. (IIRC)   Michael Austin   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2004.202 ************************