[Info-vax] A 5 minutes hang during early stage of a shutdown.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Sorry, I forgot one thing...

The shutdown command used is :

$  @SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN 0 SHUTDOWN YES YES LATER YES NONE

Jan-Erik.



Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote 2013-01-22 00:23:
> Hi.
> This isn't a show-stopper but I thought I'd ask if anyone
> has seen anything like this before.
>
> $ tcpip sh ver
>
>    HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.5 - ECO 1
>    on a COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 666 MHz running OpenVMS V8.2
>
> $
>
> During the early stage of a normalt shutdown (with automatic
> reboot), the system hangs for more or less exactly 5 minutes.
>
> The detached shutdown process is in QUEMAN.EXE and in LEF during
> this period. The queues are "stopped" as far as I could see.
> There was one queue in "stopped pending". This batch queue
> had one job in MUTEX (the reason for the reboot). But, I have
> seen this shutdown delay even without this MUTEX problem.
>
> I can still use MONITOR and the system is close to full
> idle during the delay. No CPU and no (or very few) I/O's.
>
> The rellevant part of the consol output is below.
> Only changed real node name into "zzzz".
>
> Regards,
> Jan-Erik.
>
> ========================================================================
>
>      SHUTDOWN -- Perform an Orderly System Shutdown
>                  on node zzzz
>
>
> %SHUTDOWN-I-OPERATOR, this terminal is now an operator's console
> %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  21-JAN-2013 23:53:55.07  %%%%%%%%%%%
> Operator status for operator _zzzz$OPA0:
> CENTRAL, PRINTER, TAPES, DISKS, DEVICES, CARDS, NETWORK, CLUSTER, SECURITY,
> LICENSE, OPER1, OPER2, OPER3, OPER4, OPER5, OPER6, OPER7, OPER8, OPER9,
> OPER10, OPER11, OPER12
>
> %SHUTDOWN-I-DISLOGINS, interactive logins will now be disabled
> %SET-I-INTSET, login interactive limit = 0, current interactive value = 14
> %SHUTDOWN-I-SHUTNET, the DECnet network will now be shut down
> %SHUTDOWN-I-STOPQUEUES, the queues on this node will now be stopped
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  21-JAN-2013 23:53:56.43  %%%%%%%%%%%
> Message from user DECNET on zzzz
> DECnet shutting down
>
> [Here is the 5 min hang, as the timestamps above and below shows]
>
> SHUTDOWN message on zzzz from user JES at _zzzz$OPA0:   23:58:56
> zzzz will shut down in 0 minutes; back up LATER.  Please log off node zzzz.
> SHUTDOWN
>
> %SHUTDOWN-I-SITESHUT, the site-specific shutdown procedure will now be invoked
> ...
> ...
> ========================================================================
>
> Here it shuts down as expected and the reboot always runs OK.
>