[Info-vax] OpenVMS IA64 V8.2 - Failing to reboot automatically

[IanMiller]

On 21 Jan, 17:49, Ivan Lowe <ivanlow... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> We have a number of Itaniums running ovms 8.2.  A new "bug" seems to
> have materialised since the start of this year whereby these systems
> won't reboot automatically.  The system starts booting up VMS but then
> requires the date to be re-entered.
>
> At first I thought this was an issue with the battery on the
> motherboard but have found that if the date is say 1-JAN-2004 the
> system will reboot fine - but when put back to 2009 the problem
> reoccurs.
>
> Is this a hardware or software issue - anyone?  If a software issue -
> is there an easily administered s/w patch for it.


What patches do have installed and why not upgrade to V8.3-1H1 which
is a lot better?