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

[Bob Gezelter]

On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:54:06 AM UTC-4, Paul Sture wrote:
> In article <kkjmfc$j0t$1 at news.albasani.net>,
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>  Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
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> > Paul Sture wrote 2013-04-16 15:56:
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> > > In article <kkjkk4$fc5$1 at news.albasani.net>,
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> > >   Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
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> > >
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> > >> Hi.
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> > >>
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> > >> While running the automatic AUTOGEN after a 8.2 -> 8.4
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> > >> upgrade (DS20e 666), it all finished with :
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> > >>
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> > >> %AUTOGEN-I-REPORT, AUTOGEN has produced some informational messages
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> > >>           which have been stored in the file SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$PARAMS.REPORT.
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> > >>           You may wish to review the information in that file.
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> > >>
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> > >> %AUTOGEN-I-END, GENFILES phase has successfully completed.
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> > >> %DCL-W-USGOTO, target of GOTO not found - check spelling and
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> > >>     presence of label
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> > >>    \SETPARAMS\
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> > >>     SYSTEM       job terminated at 16-APR-2013 16:18:11.60
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> > >>
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> > >>
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> > >> Then it just hanged, had to ctrl-P to get to the console.
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> > >>
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> > >> Anyone seen this before?
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> > >
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> > > I had a similar problem when I tried to run AUTOGEN on 8.3 as part of
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> > > getting the latest Hobbyist licenses installed.  The old ones had
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> > > expired so there were various startup problems.  On top of that I was
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> > > running in a different emulator from the last AUTOGEN.
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> > >
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> > > Too many variables to investigate properly.  I did a CTRL-Y out,
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> > > rebooted into a minimum system, applied the licenses then did another
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> > > AUTOGEN and that was fine.
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> > >
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> > 
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> > OK. :-)
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> > 
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> > This is a customer system, but that should not make any
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> > difference I guess... :-)
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> Yes. By using a different emulator I was effectively booting into a 
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> system which had been AUTOGENed on a different hardware configuration...
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>  
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> > Currently booting from the clean 8.2 disk (moved over by
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> > a image backup/restore to a "new" DS20e).
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> > 
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> > Anyway, I'd expect SETPARAMS to be a valid label in AUTOGEN.COM...
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> I would too.  IIRC I specified REBOOT.  I wonder if there was some kind 
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> of symbol overflow which didn't get reported. I wonder if message 
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> reporting gets switched off at some point in AUTOGEN which can disable 
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> reporting of a symbol overflow...
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> -- 
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> Paul Sture

Paul,

Indeed, an interesting possibility (a quota or limit problem might get by testing).

I would not spend too much time in speculation. If the problem is reproduceable, I would do the needed tracing and identify the precise problem.

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