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    Any news?
    
    I'm just asking for a patch.
    
    Does anyone have a pointer or something ???
    
    I have a customer that can't install the product.
    
    Thanks,
    Gea

To get the unofficial patch,

	% ftp cell.lkg.dec.com
	Name (CELL.LKG.DEC.COM:user) anonymous
	331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
	Password: (type your email address here)
	230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
	FTP> cd dfs/TEMP_V40B_PATCH

Copy at least arch_alpha.mod; see the next paragraph to see if you also want
context.o.


After installing V4.0B and DCE, you'll want to copy arch_alpha.mod to
/sys/BINARY before attempting to rebuild the kernel.  If you don't use
this .mod file, the kernel rebuild will fail.  The context.o file isn't
needed in general, it's just the object in arch_alpha.mod that was patched.
If you don't typically install the kernel objects at OS install time (there's
no need to), you don't need context.o at all.


Note, do not use DFS with DCE on V4.0B.  There is a problem with DFS hanging
after 10 minutes; we are working on that problem now,


Jeff

    I've checked with my customer and he needs DFS.
    
    What do I have to do to be notified when the final patch is ready?
    Do I have to open an IPMT?
    
    Thanks,
    Gea

At this point in time we do not know what the solution to the problem is.  If
DFS is run with the unofficial patch, DFS may hang after 10 minutes.  If this
occurs, you could attach to the hung process with ladebug and do a "where thread
all".  If there are one or two threads blocked on a mutex
from within rpc__list_element_alloc() or rpc__list_element_free(), then we have
a fix for it.  However, you would probably need a debuggable libdce.so with
symbols to see the above two routines on any stack.

Jeff

	Hi 

	the customer copied patch arch_alpha.mod (sum 27113    442)
	in /sys/BINARY and then he tried to rebuild the kernel.
	But there are again errors.

	In the configuration file are present
			option DCEDFS
			option MSFS

	Installed on the system there are:

OSFADVFS410          installed  POLYCTR advfs (System Administration)
OSFADVFSBIN410       installed  POLYCTR advfs Kernel Modules (Kernel Build Envi)
OSFADVFSBINOBJECT410 installed  POLYCTR advfs Kernel Objects (Kernel Software) 

	What's missing

	Follow doconfig errors
	
	Thanks and best regards
	Anna Della Pergola/Gea Voci is on training

*** PERFORMING KERNEL BUILD ***

A log file listing special device files is located in /dev/MAKEDEV.log
        Working....Wed Apr  2 12:16:35 MET DST 1997
        Working....Wed Apr  2 12:18:37 MET DST 1997
        Working....Wed Apr  2 12:20:43 MET DST 1997

*** WARNING ***
An error has occurred during system configuration.  A partial listing
of the error log file (./errs) follows: 

dcedfs.mod: branch relocation out-of-range, bad object file produced,
can't branch from 0xfffffc0000725304 to 0xfffffc000027a9bc
dcedfs.mod: branch relocation out-of-range, bad object file produced,
can't branch from 0xfffffc00007254


	....


*** Exit 1 (ignored)
chmod 755 a.out
chmod: a.out: No such file or directory
*** Exit 4
Stop.

    re: .5
    
    Are there any errors after the 'out-of-range' errors that you've
    deleted from the output?  The branch-out-of-range error is an expected
    error -- doconfig should automatically retry linking the kernel with
    the 'trampoline' code.  You should see output to that effect following
    the branch-out-of-range error.
    
    	Steve

 	Hi after branch errors this is the error:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*** PERFORMING KERNEL BUILD ***
        Working....Fri Apr  4 11:14:05 MET DST 1997
        Working....Fri Apr  4 11:16:07 MET DST 1997

*** WARNING ***
An error has occurred during system configuration.  A partial listing
of the error log file (./errs) follows: 

cc  -c -O2   -DLANGUAGE_C -g3 -G 4 -I -I. -I.. -I../include
-DIDENT=DSNA9 -DDEC2100_A50 -DSWAPTYPE=1 -DGENERIC -DUERF -DOSF
-DULT_BIN_COMPAT -DCOMPAT_43 -DMACH -DUFS -DRT_SEM -DKERNEL -D_KERNEL
-D_BSD -signed -Wg,-w2 -compress -no_excpt -Wg,-unroll,1 -Wb,-static
-Wco,-nofloat -Olimit 3000 -D__alpha -Umips -UMIPS -c vers.c
rm -f vmunix vmunix.sys
loading vmunix.sys
ld:
Error: Undefined:
dfs_vfsops
dfs_getattrop
afs_syscall
dfs_expandfid
dfs_xioctl
dfs_scrunchfid
at_translate_creds
dfs_writeop
dfs_readop
dfs_setattrop
*** Exit 1 (ignored)
chmod 755 a.out
chmod: a.out: No such file or directory
*** Exit 4
Stop.
Press <RETURN> to continue:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Looking at  cell.lkg.dec.com anonymous ftp, under directory dfs/TEMP_V40B_PATCH
there are the file arch_alpha.mod and context.o 

sum arch_alpha.mod
27113    442 arch_alpha.mod

sum context.o
17171      3 context.o

what arch_alpha.mod | grep context
$RCSfile: context.s,v $ $Revision: 1.2.25.2 $ (DEC) $Date: 1996/09/04 13:37:50 $

what context.o
context.o:
$RCSfile: context.s,v $ $Revision: 1.2.25.2 $ (DEC) $Date: 1996/09/04 13:37:50 $

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Now looking on /sys/BINARY on a system with 4.0b

cd /sys/BINARY

sum arch_alpha.mod
55524    442 arch_alpha.mod

what arch_alpha.mod | grep context
$RCSfile: context.s,v $ $Revision: 1.2.25.2 $ (DEC) $Date: 1996/09/04 13:37:50 $


So it seems that file context.o is the same

Thanks and best regards
	Anna Della Pergola

    
    The customer is urging for an answer since he is stuck.
    
    Any ideas?
    Thanks,
    Gea

    I've contacted Gea directly and will post the result once the problem
    is resolved.
    
    	Steve