[Info-vax] Odd Autogen error.

[Bob Gezelter]

On Nov 1, 12:27 pm, Andrew Armstrong <andar... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am getting an odd error in autogen:
> %AUTOGEN-I-BEGIN, GETDATA phase is beginning.
> %RMS-F-CHK, bucket format check failed for VBN = 13
> %AUTOGEN-I-BADFILE, Bad versions of SYS$SYSTEM:PARAMS.DAT may exist.
>         We recommend that you delete all versions and start again.
> %AUTOGEN-F-ERROR, GETDATA phase was aborted due to an unexpected
> error.
> %RMS-F-CHK, bucket format check failed for VBN = 0
> %RMS-F-CHK, bucket format check failed for VBN = 0
> There is one case on itrc that had a similar message, but it was
> caused by a mount command in file that autogen had to read in. All of
> my mount commands are in systartup_vms.com, so I don't think that is
> the problem here. This is OpenVMS VAX 7.3 with no patches installed,
> running on SIMH under windows. The SIMH drive images are on a USB
> drive.
>
>  The error seems to have been caused by this line here, as the the
> next line in the log is %RMS-F-CHK, bucket format check failed for VBN
> = 13
> READ/END_OF_FILE=getdata_specials190 tempfile record
> this is my modparams, don't know if that is relevant:
> SCSNODE="DUNES"
> SCSSYSTEMID=1028
> VAXCLUSTER=0
> WINDOW_SYSTEM=1
> ADD_GBLPAGES=10000
> ADD_GBLSECTIONS=100
> ADD_NPAGEDYN=800000
> ADD_NPAGEVIR=800000
> MIN_SPTREQ=6000
> I am changing the SCSYSTEMID from 1029 to 1028 as I added wrong, and
> adding the GBLPAGES,GBLSECTIONS,NPAGEDYN,NPAGEVIR, and the
> MIN_SPTREQ=6000 as according to the instructions onhttp://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html. I have run
> these instructions in the past, both on my VAX, and on several
> different SIMH emulated vax, so I think that they are good...

Andrew,

I do not have a VAX 7.3 system handy at this instant, but I happen to
have a VAX 7.0 system booted. In that version of AUTOGEN,
"getdata_specials190" only is referenced in a single place, and that
is during the processing of SYS$SYSTEM:VMSPARAMS.DAT. As a start, run
ANALYZE/RMS on SYS$SYSTEM:VMSPARAMS.DAT to confirm the error.

[Note to other readers: A quick check of an Alpha 7.3-2 system does
not show the corresponding line]

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com