[Info-vax] probably a simple issue...

[cyberdefensedave at gmail.com]

On Monday, February 17, 2014 11:24:28 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2014-02-17 15:24:04 +0000, cyberdefensedave at gmail.com said:
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> > It turned out to be a far simpler problem, and I think I've actually 
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> > got this whole Decnet thing sorted out now.  Volumes mount, monitor 
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> > cluster functions... whew.
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> > Apparently 1.2 had not managed to complete its reboot.  I wandered down 
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> > to the datacenter and realized that the captive accounts were being 
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> > refused login as well, which I have seen happen in the past when 
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> > something gets stuck during a shutdown/reboot.  Forced a dead sergeant, 
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> > booted and all is well.  The renumbering of the node to 1.2 seems to 
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> > have finally stuck!
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> One of the more common triggers for a stuck bootstrap in OpenVMS is the 
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> queue manager.  That software is too dumb to report an error and 
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> continue if a command to start a queue is invoked when the cluster 
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> member associated with that queue isn't available.  There's no clean 
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> way around this either -- well, other than ensuring the hosts are 
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> available -- as DCL only has the most hackish and limited support for 
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> command timeouts.
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This was it exactly!  Thanks.

I will be posting another problem I'm having in a few minutes and I suspect that you are the man who will know the answer. :)