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

[cyberdefensedave at gmail.com]

On Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:16:24 AM UTC-5, cyberdef... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, February 17, 2014 11:24:28 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
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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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> > available -- as DCL only has the most hackish and limited support for 
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> > Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC
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> This was it exactly!  Thanks.
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> 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. :)

Strike that!  I actually managed to fix this one myself.  Was setting up shadowing but on reboot it kept giving me the hex designation for "volume already mounted."  Fix was simple.. rename the system volume. :)