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

[Paul Sture]

In article <kdkilb$p8k$1 at news.albasani.net>,
 Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> 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

<snip>

%%%%%%%%%%%  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.

I am assuming all interactive users except the one running SHUTDOWN have 
been terminated by this stage.  Try logging in again over a serial line 
(i.e. not a network dependent route) and running MONITOR to see what if 
anything is going on.  If you don't have the serial line option, submit 
your closedown procedure as a batch or detached job, or via SPAWN.

My thinking here is that in UCX days, we had a problem where one of the 
UCX processes at priority 8 went into a loop on closedown and at that 
priority it slowed the SHUTDOWN process itself right down.

-- 
Paul Sture