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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

1381.0. "GPC "invalid context block" msgs" by OASS::ADAMS_S (Junior Walker and the All-Stars) Wed Sep 09 1992 17:26

    A customer  completed 700 account transfers from one cluster
    to another on a network where they upgraded a node to ALL-IN-1 V3.0.
    When they tried to modify conference details or remove conferences
    under GPC to change references to the new DISK, they got "invalid
    context block" or "invalid context block address" messages (the
    latter when they tried to remove conferences).
    
    However, they could go into VAXnotes V2.2 and make the modifications
    with no problem and then go into GPC and everything was updated
    perfectly.
    
    Since this was a network transfer of files from ALL-IN-1 V2.4 to V3.0
    it was not a smooth process but they finally got everything up and
    running successfully under ALL-IN-1 V3.0.
    
    Any ideas on what could have caused the errors in GPC?
    
    Thank you in advance.
    
    Susan Adams

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1381.1		SIOG::T_REDMOND	Thoughts of an Idle Mind	`Mon Sep 14 1992 15:21`	3
	Looks like a bug. Please submit an SPR. T
1381.2	Any progress on this problem ?	BUSHIE::SETHI		`Wed Sep 08 1993 06:45`	12
	Hi Tony, Near enough a year down the line I have just had a call logged with the exact same error message. The customer has ALL-IN-1 IOS 3.0 and VAXnotes 2.4. The customer can access Notes via DCL but not ALL-IN-1 IOS. Has this been SPR'd ? Is there away around this problem ? Regards, Sunil
1381.3		SIOG::T_REDMOND	Thoughts of an Idle Mind	`Thu Sep 09 1993 09:40`	9
	Some fixes have been made recently, but maybe not for this problem. A quick look at the open bugs list for GPC doesn't reveal anything that looks related, so maybe the SPR never arrived? The only workaround I can think of right now is to fix everything from the DCL/VT client before attempting to access the conferences via ALL-IN-1. Tony
1381.4	The problem seems to gone away by magic !!!	BUSHIE::SETHI		`Fri Sep 10 1993 03:18`	22
	Hi Tony, >The only workaround I can think of right now is to fix everything from >the DCL/VT client before attempting to access the conferences via ALL-IN-1. The only problem with this is that it all works fine from OpenVMS but not ALL-IN-1 IOS. So I can't fix the problem because we do not have a problem with the VT interface. It diffinately points to a problem with the ALL-IN-1 IOS UI and I have not got a clue as to what an "invalid context block" is. If you can let me know that I can start looking at possible cause of the problem. Today I asked the customer if I can get a trace and he tried to reproduce the problem and you have guessed it. By magic it all started working and the customer assures me that he has not changed anything. Maybe it the luck of the Irish that has solved the problem !!! If I can get any more information to help you let me know, I will be monitoring the call in the mean while. Regards, Sunil
1381.5		SIOG::T_REDMOND	Thoughts of an Idle Mind	`Fri Sep 10 1993 11:55`	5
	By "fixing from VT" I meant that the customer should fix the conference file entries with the VT MODIFY CONFERENCE/FILE= command and see if that makes any difference to GPC... T