Conference csc32::consolemanager

533.0. "WATCH shuts down PCM" by CX3PST::ANASAZ::J_BECKER (There's no substitute for a good boot) Thu Dec 22 1994 17:46

Here's an interesting problem.  User wants to WATCH the data and 
specifies TTA3: or a file as the output. After starting PCM, he 
interactively starts the WATCH with 

$cons watch/all/output=t.t

We receive two headers in this process:

 POLYCENTER Console Manager
 Watch facility Version V1.5-002
 Copyright (c) 1994 Digital Equipment Corporation. All Rights Reserved

 POLYCENTER Console Manager
 Watch facility Version V1.5-002
 Copyright (c) 1994 Digital Equipment Corporation. All Rights Reserved

and hang as expected.

However, we noticed the DAEMON and CTRL_x processes are now gone. 
Only the NOTIFY is still out there.  The accounting records for these
processes show the exit status of SUCCESS (00000001).  I defined
CONSOLE$DEBUG to be DAEMON and again performed the same procedure. 
The .LOG file contains information about a NULL structure:

.
.
.
    Record event <CMgr Console NOT Found>
Parent Control Socket Read CB: End
Parent Control Socket Read CB: Start
    Record event <CMgr Console NOT Found>
Parent Control Socket Read CB: End
Parent Control Socket Accept CB: Start
Parent Control Socket Accept CB: End
Parent Control Socket Read CB: Start
    C3 has connected
Parent Control Socket Read CB: End
Parent Control Socket Close CB: Start
    Fatal Error, NULL connect structure, exiting!!!
Console Manager shutting down at user request
Parent Control Socket Close CB: Start
    Fatal Error, NULL connect structure, exiting!!!
  SYSTEM       job terminated at 20-DEC-1994 19:01:28.81


thanks
john becker
csc/cs

John,

  Forget the NULL structure, its a red herring, it means that the parent has 
  seen a child go away, so it is shutting down.

Can you reproduce this problem with the MUP?

Cheers,
Phil