[Info-vax] AUTOGEN: DCL-W-USGOTO, target of GOTO not found (SETPARAMS)...

[Paul Sture]

In article <kkjmfc$j0t$1 at news.albasani.net>,
 Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote 2013-04-16 15:56:
> > In article <kkjkk4$fc5$1 at news.albasani.net>,
> >   Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> While running the automatic AUTOGEN after a 8.2 -> 8.4
> >> upgrade (DS20e 666), it all finished with :
> >>
> >> %AUTOGEN-I-REPORT, AUTOGEN has produced some informational messages
> >>           which have been stored in the file SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$PARAMS.REPORT.
> >>           You may wish to review the information in that file.
> >>
> >> %AUTOGEN-I-END, GENFILES phase has successfully completed.
> >> %DCL-W-USGOTO, target of GOTO not found - check spelling and
> >>     presence of label
> >>    \SETPARAMS\
> >>     SYSTEM       job terminated at 16-APR-2013 16:18:11.60
> >>
> >>
> >> Then it just hanged, had to ctrl-P to get to the console.
> >>
> >> Anyone seen this before?
> >
> > I had a similar problem when I tried to run AUTOGEN on 8.3 as part of
> > getting the latest Hobbyist licenses installed.  The old ones had
> > expired so there were various startup problems.  On top of that I was
> > running in a different emulator from the last AUTOGEN.
> >
> > Too many variables to investigate properly.  I did a CTRL-Y out,
> > rebooted into a minimum system, applied the licenses then did another
> > AUTOGEN and that was fine.
> >
> 
> OK. :-)
> 
> This is a customer system, but that should not make any
> difference I guess... :-)

Yes. By using a different emulator I was effectively booting into a 
system which had been AUTOGENed on a different hardware configuration...
 
> Currently booting from the clean 8.2 disk (moved over by
> a image backup/restore to a "new" DS20e).
> 
> Anyway, I'd expect SETPARAMS to be a valid label in AUTOGEN.COM...

I would too.  IIRC I specified REBOOT.  I wonder if there was some kind 
of symbol overflow which didn't get reported. I wonder if message 
reporting gets switched off at some point in AUTOGEN which can disable 
reporting of a symbol overflow...

-- 
Paul Sture