[Info-vax] RPC and NFS Locking?

[Tim Ellis]

On Mar 9, 10:45 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Tim Ellis wrote 2012-03-09 11:36:
>
>
>
> > We have a process which makes use of RPC calls to fetch data from a
> > remote (non vms) server.  This process was originally built on an
> > Alpha using OpenVMS 7.3-2 and TCPIP 5.4, and has worked without any
> > problems for 2+years
>
> > We recently migrated to a new VMS server running OpenVMS 8.4 and TCPIP
> > 5.7 - We rebuilt and relinked the procedure under this version, and it
> > runs for between 15 mins to 4 hours, then starts to fail.  Once it
> > starts failing it seems to continue to do so unless one or other of
> > the servers involved are rebooted.
>
> > Running the executable built under OpenVMS 7.3-2 continues to work
> > without displaying this problem.
>
> > The error returned is JCI_SERVER: RPC: Remote system error -
> > Connection refused
>
> > My suspicion is that something on the new build is triggering NFS
> > record locking, that is not called by the original build.  Since we
> > don't make use of any other NFS services we don't have either STATD or
> > LOCKD running, and the thought was that starting these processes might
> > relieve the issue - however when I try running SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP
> > $STATD_STARTUP I get the following error message
>
> > %TCPIP-I-INFO, image SYS$SYSTEM:TCPIP$STATD.EXE installed
> > %TCPIP-E-STARTERROR, error starting STATD service
> > -TCPIP-W-NORECORD, information not found
> > -RMS-E-RNF, record not found
> > %TCPIP-E-STARTFAIL, failed to start TCPIP$STATD
> > -TCPIP-E-ENABLERR, error enabling service
>
> > Either the manual is not much help, or I'm looking in the wrong one
> > (or the wrong place in the right one) as I can't see what record it is
> > looking for.  Anyone able to help?
>
> I do not know if STATD solves the actual problem, but in some cases
> you can't run the STARTUP routines if you havn't done the "config"
> in TCPIP$CONFIG.COM first. I noticed that there is an entry in
> the "server" submenu "11 - LOCKD/STATD  Disabled Stopped".
> This is on "V5.7 - ECO 3".
>
> Jan-Erik.

Thanks Jan-Erik
I'm  not sure if it will solve the problem either, but at least it's
something I can try...