Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

2637.0. "CAB_DRAWERLOG from where????" by VNABRW::EHRLICH_K (The Pit and the Pendulum!) Thu Apr 29 1993 16:26

Hi,
	a customer has logged here at our CSC in Vienna a 'funny' call.
ALL-IN-1 V3.0-1 GERMAN LLV + VMS V5.5-2.

Suddenly all users get the following errormessage when they try to
enter WP (TX in GERMAN) at the mainmenu.

%OA-W-CAB_DRAWERLOG, Fehler beim Vergeben des logischen Namens f�r das Fach. 
%OA-W-CAB_CANT_OPEN, Sie k�nnen auf Ihre Ablage nicht zugreifen.

I found these errormessages only in OA$BUILD:OAMESS.MSG.

!CAB_DRAWERLOG   <Error setting drawer logical>
CAB_DRAWERLOG   <Fehler beim Vergeben des logischen Namens f�r das Fach.>
CAB_CANT_OPEN   <Sie k�nnen auf Ihre Ablage nicht zugreifen.>(This message
I also find in OA.A1$MSG)

After a hard troubleshooting by phone - I've traced this as good as I could, and
saw, that 

![IO]Getting record from FILECAB, Key = 1, Key-of-ref = INDICATOR/1
![IO]Getting field NAME from FILECAB, Value = STANDARD
![IO]Getting record from PARTITION, Key = , Key-of-ref = 0

and after this the errormessages appear here.

So my next step was to have a look for OA$DATA:PARTITON.DAT. And yeah,
customer has two versions.

Directory ALLIN1$DISK:[ALLIN1.DATA_SHARE]

PARTITION.DAT;3      [ALLIN1]              (RWED,RWED,,)
          (IDENTIFIER=OA$PRVAPP,ACCESS=READ)
PARTITION.DAT;2      [ALLIN1]              (RWED,RWED,,)
          (IDENTIFIER=OA$PRVAPP,ACCESS=READ)
   
The last version was dated today 13:00 ???. Making a difference of both
I found that one drawer is added in the PARTITION.DAT;3. After stopping
the FCS (has locked partition.dat.3 ???) and renaming PARTITION.DAT;3. 
to PARTITION.xxx and restarting ALL-IN-1 everything's alright now.

My question now is, what or who can create a new Partition.dat file ???
Can this be a result by playing with MGT MFC MP Creating, I really don't know.
From where is the CAB_DRAWERLOG message called?

Many thanks for your answers and 

Best regards
Charly_from_CSC_Vienna
    

    Hi,
    
    Most likely cause of this error is that the DIRECTORY field in the
    PARTITION record is blank. So when it tries to open the drawer files,
    such as the DOCDB it hasn't got a VMS directory to find them in.
    
    HTH
    
    Stuart