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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

10016.0. "netconfig fails on deconfig of fddi interface." by CSC32::A_LICAUSE () Mon Jun 02 1997 15:35

    Customer was tyring to deconfigure an FDDI interface usint the GUI
    netconfig on his V4.0b dunix system and it blew up on exit with the 
    following error:
    
    invalid keyed list format or inconsistent field name scoping:  no value
    associated with field "name "  "set name [keylget delentry]"
    
    He did not give the FDDI interface a seperate host name.
    
    Any one ever see this reported before?  Should this GUI be avoided?
    
    I understand it is very buggy?
    
    Al

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
10016.1	file a qar	NNTPD::"[email protected]"	Brian Haley	`Mon Jun 02 1997 17:42`	12
	> Any one ever see this reported before? I checked the qar database on Gorge, nothing similar - open a new one - no app should ever "blow up". I'd include how this interface was setup. > Should this GUI be avoided? I understand it is very buggy? I don't know where you got that impression, there are some open qars against it but only one seemed critical. -Brian [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
10016.2	Not buggy you say!!	CSC32::A_LICAUSE		`Tue Jun 03 1997 09:22`	15
	>> RE Don't know where you got the impression that netconfig was buggy From the people that take most of the customer calls at the CSC! If anyone is in a position to hear complaints, they are. I suspect that, like the both customers that I spoke with yesterday, as long as there is a work around line netsetup or editing rc.config by hand they not as concerned, but lets hope that all of the bugs are worked out before they retire netsetup. And please don't turn rc.config into an executable or something that a customer cannot fix when the GUI's fail. I'd hate to think the kind of reaction we'd get if that happened!
10016.3		NNTPD::"[email protected]"	Brian Haley	`Tue Jun 03 1997 12:06`	18
	> From the people that take most of the customer calls at the CSC! Well if they're getting calls about problems, they aren't entering qars to track them. There are only 8 open qars in the database, and a handfull more answered/acknowledged. I'm sure the nice people in UNX would love to hear about enhancements to make it better too, they always listen to my "suggestion" qars. I asked that you enter a qar because Engineering doesn't always read this notes file and I didn't want your bug to fall through the cracks (BTW, I don't work on the netconfig component). > And please don't turn rc.config into an executable Why would we change /etc/rc.config? Really... -Brian [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]