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Conference orarep::nomahs::sql_services

Title:SQL/Services Forum
Notice:kits(3) ft info(7) QAR access (8) SPR access (10)
Moderator:SQLSRV::MAVRIS
Created:Thu Oct 13 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2214
Total number of notes:8586

2164.0. "BADLIS_MBXMSG, Bad DECnet listener mailbox message ?" by NOMAHS::SECRIST (Rdb WWS; [email protected]) Wed Mar 12 1997 18:10

    
    When a customer shuts down SQS 7.0 the SQS<_node>_SQLSRV_MON_0070.LOG
    file reports an event:
    
    %SQLSRV-I-EVENT_LOG, event logged at line 1415 in file COM_LISTENER.C;1
    %SQLSRV-E-BADLIS_MBXMSG, Bad DECnet listener mailbox message type: 1
    
    followed by another event:
    
    %SQLSRV-I-EVENT_LOG, event logged at line 3815 in file COM_DIALOG.C;1
    %SQLSRV-E-READERR, Error on read
    %SYSTEM-F-LINKABORT, network partner aborted logical link
    
    According to SQLSRV_MESSAGES70.TXT "An OpenVMS listener mailbox message
    had a type it did not know about."
    
    Why is this message here and what does it mean for the health of this
    node's DECnet services ?
    
    Regards,
    rcs
    
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2164.1FWIWORAREP::RTOAL2::MAHERTIER3 simply a better RPC!Thu Mar 20 1997 03:3218
    Hi,
    
    Seeing how noone else replied, I'll have a guess.
    
    Message type 1 is msg$_trmunsolic which is great if you want to
    trap unsolicited data entry at a terminal but a network comserver
    is not very interested :-)
    
    I don't know what the protection mask is on the comserver's network
    message mailbox but I'd suggest some other program is writing
    rubbish to it or testing a broadcast trapping/unsolicited input
    program and ended up associating the wrong mailbox.
    
    I can't remember if it's possible to get the sender pid from the iosb
    and put that in a message but I am curious as to what is the protection
    mask you put on the mailbox?
    
    Regards Richar Maher
2164.2Benign error message logging bugORASQS::OXBURYOracle Corporation, Rdb Desktop Group|DTN 381-2704Thu Mar 20 1997 09:116
    I suspect this is a benign bug at the end of the shutdown processing
    where the code that's handling the shutdown sequence simply isn't
    handling the termination of stuff correctly. I've seen it before, and I
    think I may have even QAR'd it, but I don't remember for sure. 
    
    Si