[Info-vax] Undo Autogen on VMS 7.3

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/1/2010 6:35 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
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> "Jan-Erik Soderholm" <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote in message
> news:ianepk$hfi$1 at news.albasani.net...
>> On 2010-11-01 23:21, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "Jan-Erik Soderholm" <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote in message
>>> news:iane5h$ggt$1 at news.albasani.net...
>>>> On 2010-11-01 23:00, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>>>>> I have an old Alpha 433au to which I just added some extra memory.
>>>>> So I did
>>>>> an Autogen, but it looks like there were some problems with the
>>>>> parameters
>>>>> as there were conflicting SCSNODE values etc. I pressed ahead, but
>>>>> would
>>>>> now like to go back to the previous configuration. Is this
>>>>> possible? If so,
>>>>> how do I do it? Note that I have not purged any files in
>>>>> sys$system, so I
>>>>> am wondering if it is just a matter of deleting the most recent
>>>>> SETPARAMS.DAT and rebooting?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>> Or simply fix the problems and rerun AUTOGEN.
>>>> What actual problems are you seeing ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> All my licenses seem to have expired, even though they are still
>>> valid and
>>> within the expiry date.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>> What "licences" ? "Seem" to have expired ?
>> Show output of the rellevant commands or don't mention it at all.
>>
>>
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>
> Just realised the problem is a different one to the one I thought. I was
> jumping to some conclusions. It looks like the actual problem (or at
> least one of the problems) is that DECnet won't start because of this
> error:
>
> DECnet address of local node must match VMScluster system ID.
>
> As I am not especially expert on clustering I would rather go back to
> where I was before, even though this looks like an excellent learning
> opportunity :-) But I would prefer to save that for another day if there
> is a way to rollback.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob

Did you do a disk backup before you tried the AUTOGEN?

Before making any changes to  your system, you should have some means of 
backing out the change!