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

[Jim Mehlhop]

jim wrote:
> On Jan 21, 1:56 pm, koeh... at spock.koehler.athome.net wrote:
>> In article <2534768e-55eb-4531-9ca7-08ef9b394... at v18g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, Ivan Lowe <ivanlow... at googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 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.
>>    Are you running sys$system:shutdown.com?  If not, then the commands
>>    to update the hardware clock may not be happening.
> 
> I have another site with EXACTLY the same problem.  It is an rx1600
> the  CM> date command shows the correct time. to be safe I had them go
> into the system configuration menu and do the set time and set date.
> then go back to MC> and  RS.  Then check the data again.  Looks good.
> If he sets settime=0 (which is was) and TIMEPROMPTWAIT = 0 it will
> boot and set the time to-------  Are you ready for this     1-jan-2004
> at midnight!!
> I had him do
> $ set time <cr> also so that has been covered.  Will check his
> patches.
> 

It appears to be a system patch.  The following patches were installed 
on a system that DID work!



BFIELD::SYSTEM$ prod sho hist

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PRODUCT                             KIT TYPE    OPERATION   DATE AND TIME

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HP I64VMS VMS82I_TZ V2.0            Patch       Install     31-OCT-2007 
01:18:40

HP I64VMS VMS82I_TDF V3.0           Patch       Install     31-OCT-2007 
01:17:12

HP I64VMS VMS82I_UPDATE V6.0        Patch       Install     31-OCT-2007 
01:11:13

HP I64VMS VMS82I_PCSI V1.0          Patch       Install     31-OCT-2007 
01:07:45