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Conference vaxaxp::vmsnotes

Title:	VAX and Alpha VMS
Notice:	This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1
Moderator:	VAXAXP::BERNARDO

Created:	Wed Jan 22 1997
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	703
Total number of notes:	3722

498.0. "VMS$COMMON SYSCOMMON FIS problems" by VIVIAN::D_BONO () Mon Apr 21 1997 07:52

    
    Hello,
    
    I have a customer who has recently had problems with DECinspect failing
    to run a lockdown command procedure. It was failing trying to set an
    ACL on SYS$SYSDEVICE:[000000]VMS$COMMON.DIR. They are running OpenVMS
    Alpha V6.2-1H3.
    
    It turned out the VMS$COMMON.DIR file header alias was SYSCOMMON.DIR not 
    VMS$COMMON.DIR as seen from ...
    $ DUMP/HEAD/BLOCK=(COUNT=0) SYS$SYSDEVICE:[000000]VMS$COMMON.DIR
    
    We have applied the fix by renaming VMS$COMMON.DIR to SYSCOMMON.DIR and
    back again and this works O.K.
     
    However we have started looking around other machines and we find many
    systems are affected in this way. Even systems that were built from
    factory installed software running V6.2-1H3.
    
    My concern is that FIS systems have this problem. Has anyone else seen
    this from a raw install of FIS or off of CD? Is V7.1 affected?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Dave Bono (MCS London)

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
498.1	Never done clean Alpha install, but see it everywhere	TAY2P1::HOWARD	Whoever it takes	`Mon Apr 21 1997 12:03`	9
	I'm sure you saw this documented as fixed in the V6.1 Release Notes. My experience is that virtually every system has this problem unless it has been fixed. (The instructions given involve a more a SET FILE/ENTER to fix it. Not sure if your method is just as valid.) Could it be that the version of standalone backup on the kit does not have the fix? Ben
498.2	V7.1 from CD O.K FIS V6.2 not.	VIVIAN::D_BONO		`Fri May 09 1997 11:05`	15
	I have installed V7.1 from scratch from a CD and it had the file identification name is correct i.e. VMS$COMMON.DIR. Re .1 a set file/enter was not required as the alias was working correctly i.e. the file id's were the same however the Identification File Name from dump/head was still the old SYSCOMMON.DIR which was causing DECinspect to fail. The rename fixes this. I have looked at several OpenVMS Alpha V6.2 systems and they are all wrong with SYSCOMMON.DIR as their name and they all were factory installed. Dave.
498.3	Contact FIS Folks...	XDELTA::HOFFMAN	Steve, OpenVMS Engineering	`Fri May 09 1997 12:52`	9
	Ring up the FIS folks or the vendor, depending on where the box had the software installed -- there was a FIS comment card in with most (all?) of the shipments -- or contact the site where the software was installed. (NIO?) [We FIS software. Sometimes we get systems assembled by one of our channel partners, and these folks may not be using the same FIS as we are -- the box may not have (does not have) the same FIS kit.]