| Title: | DECWINDOWS |
| Notice: | DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 SSB kits: note 5519 |
| Moderator: | GRIM::MESSENGER |
| Created: | Wed Nov 28 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5861 |
| Total number of notes: | 24081 |
I'd like to know what exactly is supposed to break in DECwindows
when 19-May-1997 arrives. My concern is based on a message from
a local system manager:
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[from the system manager]
I've updated all T&U cluster nodes except FLASHR with the latest LIBRTL
kits to avoid the impending breakage of DecWindows, console, DCE, et. al. on
19-May-1997. I need to install the kit on FLASHR.
...
If you are running Decwindows and any version earlier than V7.1, you'll need
to install the kit before 19-May-1997.
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the kits i retrieved have sizes and dates as follows:
[ALPLIBR04_070]
ALPLIBR04_070.A;1 180/180 14-OCT-1996 13:47:29.00
ALPLIBR04_070.B;1 1548/1548 14-OCT-1996 13:47:47.00
ALPLIBR04_070.C;1 1548/1548 14-OCT-1996 13:48:13.00
ALPLIBR04_070.D;1 4752/4752 14-OCT-1996 13:48:46.00
ALPLIBR04_070.RELEASE_NOTES;1 8/9 14-OCT-1996 13:40:51.00
Total of 5 files, 8036/8037 blocks.
[VAXLIBR02_070]
VAXLIBR02_070.A;1 90/90 19-SEP-1996 09:10:00.00
VAXLIBR02_070.B;1 1332/1332 19-SEP-1996 09:10:16.00
VAXLIBR02_070.C;1 1332/1332 19-SEP-1996 09:11:04.00
VAXLIBR02_070.D;1 1098/1098 19-SEP-1996 09:11:32.00
VAXLIBR02_070.RELEASE_NOTES;1 7/9 19-SEP-1996 08:56:56.00
Total of 5 files, 3859/3861 blocks.
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the release notes are sufficiently vague that i can't tell if i really
need to install the patch:
Kit Description:
Version(s) of OpenVMS to which this kit may be applied:
OpenVMS Alpha V7.0, OpenVMS Alpha V6.2, OpenVMS Alpha V6.1
...
Files patched or replaced for OpenVMS Alpha V6.2
o [SYSLIB]LIBRTL.EXE (new image)
...
Problems addressed in ALPLIBR02_070 kit
o The 10,000 day limit in LIB$CVT_TO_INTERNAL_TIME causes
problems or DECthreads since it is using this routine to
convert Unix times to VAX time. It will fail to work on
19-May-1997
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even stranger, i see no mention in this conference of the problem or the
fix. is this problem real? is the fix necessary?
is there a doctor in the house?
Paul Clark
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5785.1 | GRIM::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Tue Feb 25 1997 16:41 | 20 | |
I tested this as part of the DECwindows Motif Year 2000 testing and I found that when the system date was set past 19-May-1997 and the system was rebooted, DECwindows would no longer start. The following error messages were displayed on the console: %CMA-F-EXCCOPLOS, exception raised: some information lost -CMA-F-BADPARAM, parameter to DECthreads operation is invalid %ADA-I-TASTERUNH, Task with ID %TASK9 of type Verify_Dependant_Tasks type has terminated due to unhandled exception I'm told that this is a known problem in DECthreads that is caused by a call to LIB$CVT_TO_INTERNAL_TIME, which will no longer work as of May 19th 1997 because it will have been 10,000 days since the start of the UNIX "epoch", January 1st 1970. This affects OpenVMS versions prior to V7.1, on both VAX and Alpha, and it's fixed by the patch kits that you mentioned. -- Bob | |||||