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

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Jan 21, 5:49 pm, 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.

VMS FAQ 4.1.1.3 describes a scenario on VAX which may or may not be
related; the FAQ doesn't say (and I can't remember) whether similar
scenarios are possible on Alpha or Itanium.

I could be way off beam, and would welcome correction if so, but in
the meantime, at least it should be easy (and harmless) to test, with
a "SET TIME" command on your Itanium system.


VMS FAQ part 4: http://hoffmanlabs.org/vmsfaq/vmsfaq_004.html