[Info-vax] PEA0: Errors

[Christoph Gartmann]

In article <9dd8aba3-7b24-4548-8540-e0e80692fdbf at r16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, Volker Halle <volker_halle at hotmail.com> writes:
>also look for connection manager messages on the console (or
>OPERATOR.LOG). Depending on your version of OpenVMS, SCACP may also be
>helpful. There are various SCACP> SHOW commands to look at all kinds
>of counters.
>
>If you see many 'lost connection to node' and 're-established
>connection to node' messages at certain times, you have to think about
>multicast messages probably getting lost.

It is getting worse now, which results in crashes. What I see in the errorlog
is something like:


 ******************************* ENTRY     346. *******************************
 ERROR SEQUENCE 304.                             LOGGED ON:  CPU_TYPE 00000005
 DATE/TIME  5-MAR-2009 10:52:28.35                            SYS_TYPE 0000000F
 SYSTEM UPTIME: 0 DAYS 16:18:19
 SCS NODE: MPI5                                             OpenVMS AXP V7.3-2

 HW_MODEL: 000004FB Hardware Model = 1275.

 ERL$LOGMESSAGE Digital AlphaStation 600 5/333

 NI-SCS SUB-SYSTEM, _MPI5$PEA0:

       "DRIVER" ERROR SUB-TYPE # = 11.

       LOCAL STATION ADDRESS, FFFFFFFFFF00(X)
       LOCAL SYSTEM ID, 000000000405(X)

       REMOTE STATION ADDRESS, 0000000000DB(X)
       REMOTE SYSTEM ID, 000000000401(X)

       UCB$L_ERTCNT    0000002F
                                       47. RETRIES REMAINING
       UCB$L_ERTMAX    00000032
                                       50. RETRIES ALLOWABLE
       UCB$L_ERRCNT    00000001
                                       1. ERRORS THIS UNIT
       PPD$B_PORT            00
                                       REMOTE NODE # 0.
       PPD$B_STATUS          00
       PPD$B_OPC             00
                                       UNKNOWN OPCODE
       PPD$B_FLAGS           00
%ERF-W-UNKPKTFMT, unknown packet format, entry 347 skipped


What does this mean?

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

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