OpenVMS VAXODS1_01_062 VAX V6.2 ODS-1 ECO Summary
TITLE: OpenVMS VAXODS1_01_062 VAX V6.2 ODS-1 ECO Summary
Modification Date: 14-DEC-1999
Modification Type: New Kit
NOTE: An OpenVMS saveset or PCSI installation file is stored
on the Internet in a self-expanding compressed file.
The name of the compressed file will be kit_name-dcx_vaxexe
for OpenVMS VAX or kit_name-dcx_axpexe for OpenVMS Alpha.
Once the file is copied to your system, it can be expanded
by typing RUN compressed_file. The resultant file will
be the OpenVMS saveset or PCSI installation file which
can be used to install the ECO.
Copyright (c) Compaq Computer Corporation 1999. All rights reserved.
OP/SYS: OpenVMS VAX
COMPONENT: ODS1
BACKUP
DUMP
F11AACP
F11BXQP
F11CACP
F11DACP
INIT$SHR
MTAAACP
STABACKUP
VERIFY
SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation
ECO INFORMATION:
ECO Kit Name: VAXODS1_01_062
ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: None
The VAXODS1_01_062 does not supersede any other kits.
However, it does include problem corrections shipped in the
VAXF11X05_062, VAXVERI02_062, VAXINIT01_062, VAXMTAA03_062,
VAXBACK03_062 and VAXF11C01_062 remedial kits. If you
install the VAXODS1_01_062 kit, you do not need to install
any of these other remedial kits.
ECO Kit Approximate Size: 1800 Blocks
Kit Applies To: OpenVMS VAX V6.2
System/Cluster Reboot Necessary: Yes
Rolling Re-boot Supported: Yes
Installation Rating: INSTALL_2
2 - To be installed on all systems running
the listed version(s) of OpenVMS and
using the following feature(s):
Users of ODS-1 Format Files
Kit Dependencies:
The following remedial kit(s) must be installed BEFORE
installation of this kit:
VAXCLUSIO01_062
VAXY2K02_062
In order to receive all the corrections listed in this
kit, the following remedial kits should also be installed:
VAXSYSA02_062
VAXDISM02_062
VAXMOUN04_062
VAXCLIU08_062
ECO KIT SUMMARY:
An ECO kit exists for Y2K and other issues on ODS-1 on OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
This kit addresses the following problems:
Problems Addressed in this kit:
o The 64 bit internal time is not formatted to an RSX-11
compatible ASCII string. An RSX date string contains
only a 2-character year field (ASCII). In order to
accommodate the year 2000, this ASCII encoding will now
include the value of decades (since 1900) in the string.
This means that for the years 1900 through 1999, the date
string will appear as 00 to 99. For the years 2000 through
the years 39xx, the string will show as ':0', ';0' and so
forth.
Images Affected:
- [SYSEXE]F11AACP.EXE
- [SYSLIB]INIT$SHR.EXE
- [SYSEXE]VERIFY.EXE
- [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
- [SYSEXE]MTAAACP.EXE
- [SYSEXE]F11CACP.EXE
- [SYSEXE]F11DACP.EXE
- [SYSEXE]DUMP.EXE
- [SYSEXE]BACKUP.EXE
- [SYSLIB]BACKUPSHE.EXE
- [SYSEXE]STABACKUP.EXE
o Attempting to mount the second volume of a two-volume RMU
backup results in %MOUNT-F-MEDOFL and %MOUNT-F-FILACCERR
errors.
Images Affected: [SYSEXE]MTAAACP.EXE
o Verify does not flag files which are directly back linked to
themselves as having invalid backlinks.
Images Affected: [SYSEXE]VERIFY.EXE
o VERIFY hangs in an infinite loop during its scan of the
directory structure.
Images Affected: [SYSEXE]VERIFY.EXE
Problems Addressed in the VAXF11X05_062 Kit:
o During the mounting of the system disk, the error message that
the disk is mounted with a reduced cache is suppressed. Hence,
the System Manager may be unaware that the performance of the
system disk and all others attached to the same cache block is
questionable.
Image Affected: [SYSEXE]FILESERV.EXE
o When deleting a large file (such as a system dump file), a
UNXSIGNAL Bugcheck may occur. This particular bugcheck occurs
because a variable in the code causes a reference to memory
data that the file system does not own and an internal access
violation occurs (ACCVIO).
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o On some systems with higher rates of system paging or with
WSDEC set to a non-standard value, a system can crash with a
PGFLIPLHI (Page Fault IPL too High) bugcheck. This problem
happened when the system returns from a SMP$ACQUIRE call.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o An XQPERR can occur in the RDBLOK module during disk cleanup
using DCL.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o When storing the value of a directory index buffer, the system
may crash with a PGFLIPLHI, SSRVEXCPTN error.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o A dismount on a shadowded device results in an unnecessary
copy.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o If a process is created with a termination mailbox unit
assigned, the files are not properly audited.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o An XQPERR bugcheck (crash) in the RETURN_CREDITS module can
occur during DISMOUNT.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o An XQPERR Bugcheck (crash) in XQP can occur during a SET ACL
(SET FILE/ACL) operation.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o When two processes are competing to dismount a volume, one
process may be just a bit faster than the other and delete the
VCB and other structures before the second process has time to
finish up its processing. The result is a UNXSIGNAL/ACCVIO
crash.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o A device reporting a read error (SS$_PARITY) during read/write
processing in the XQP will attempt to record the bad blocks
and FID in the BADLOG.SYS file. When the internal close
operation occurs (on BADLOG), the system XQPERR bugchecks
when it finds the process's dirty buffers have not been
written out.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o A UNXSIGNAL/ACCVIO error can occur at module F11BXQP. This
problem occurs during mount, when the primary volume is not
yet mounted.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o Processes can hang (deadlock) when dismounting a device.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o A 'no such file' error can occur on directory extension FCBs.
This problem can occur in at least two ways:
1. A file appears normal on one node but has an 'no such
file' error from another node.
2. BACKUP or DUMP /HEADER encounters a read attributes
error of NOSUCHFILE. This error occurs when an attempt
is made to read a file header, for which the FCB for the
old header is still in memory.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o Alternate file access checking does not provide the correct
information for files on ODS-1 disks. That is, an ODS-1 disk
access does not process the alternate file access checking
parameters FIB$L_ALT_ACCESS and FIB$L_STATUS.
Image Affected: [SYSEXE]F11AACP.EXE
o The F11A routine ACPCONTROL only understands the control
function REMAP_FILE. Hence, for illegal function codes, all
other control functions return NORMAL, when ILLIOFUNC should
be returned instead.
Image Affected: [SYSEXE]F11AACP.EXE
o Occasional false end-of-file (EOF) errors can occur on a read
operation.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o The XQP fails after an IO$_DEACCESS call with an SS$_BADPARAM
error. One cannot determine whether a file is still open or
not due to the failed IO$_DEACCESS call.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
o Non-privileged users can change the revision date (and count)
of a file for which they should have only READ access. For
example, if a non-privileged user with READ-only file access
tries to set the file protection, a failure occurs with an
SS$_NOPRIV error as expected. However, the revision date (and
count) are modified.
Image Affected: [SYS$LDR]F11BXQP.EXE
Problems Addressed in the VAXF11X04_062 kit:
o An XQPERR bugcheck error, "all the index buffers are active",
occurs when running with a reduced cache or during a BACKUP.
o An XQPERR bugcheck error, 'wrong lock basis with FCB present',
occurred when creating files with ACLs on a full volume.
o One can serialize on the wrong volume in a volume set.
o Fix a reserved operand fault bugcheck on $QIO exit. The $QIO
failed on return because the IPL was set to zero but was
entered at IPL 2.
o $GET_SECURITY was reading the ORB on a file without any
synchronization with the file system. In the best case, this
problem can lead to bad information being returned. In the
worst case, if the file system was rebuilding the ORB's ACL
chain at the time, a kernel mode ACCVIO can occur.
*** Note: In order to get this fix, you must also install the
kit VAXSYSA01_062.
Problems Addressed in the VAXINIT01_062 Kit:
o A possible system crash occurs during Host Based RAID Unbinds
with MME code enabled. A mailbox read synchronization problem
causes the crash.
This problem only occurs when a host-based RAID UNBIND command
is done while an MME-based application is running.
This problem can occur in several different code areas of the
operating system. In order to eliminate all known instances of
this problem, the following remedial kits (or their
supersedants) will also need to be installed:
VAXSYSA02_062
VAXBACK03_062
VAXMOUN03_062
VAXINIT01_062
VAXMTAA03_062
o A process using MME could potentially "miss" the VOL1 label on
a tape. Also, a process could "hang" trying to send a message
to the MME process.
Problems Addressed in the VAXVERI02_062 Kit:
o VERIFY does not flag files, which are directly back linked to
themselves, as having invalid backlinks.
o VERIFY hangs in an infinite loop during its scan of the directory
structure.
Problems Addressed in the VAXVERI01_071 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.2, V6.2-0HF:
o ANALYZE/DISK goes into an infinite loop.
VERIFY has incorrectly 'fixed' the backlink of a lost directory to
point to itself. The next time VERIFY is run, it encounters the
lost directory and goes into a tight loop following the directory's
backlink.
Problems Addressed in the VAXVERI01_062 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.2:
o Errors similar to these may occur during execution of the
'ANALYZE/DISK' DCL command:
%ANALDISK-W-CHKALTHOME, invalid alternate home block, VBN 3,
RVN 1
%ANALDISK-W-CHKALTHOME, invalid alternate home block, VBN 4,
RVN 1
%ANALDISK-W-CHKALTHOME, invalid alternate home block, VBN 5,
RVN 1
NOTE: In order to receive this full fix, in addition to this kit,
the VAXCLIU04_062 kit or any kits that supersede it, must
also be installed.
This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.0.
Problems Addressed in the VAXBACK03_062 Kit:
o A possible system crash occurs during Host Based RAID Unbinds
with MME code enabled. A mailbox read synchronization problem
causes the crash.
This problem only occurs when a host-based RAID UNBIND command
is done while an MME-based application is running.
The problem may occur in several different code areas of the
operating system. In order get eliminate all known instances
of this problem, the following remedial kits (or their
supersedants) will also need to be installed:
VAXSYSA02_062
VAXMOUN04_062
VAXDISM02_062
o A process using MME could potentially "miss" the VOL1 label on
a tape. Also, a process could "hang" trying to send a message
to the MME process.
Problems Addressed in the VAXBACK02_062 Kit:
o The VAXBACK01_062 remedial kit should have included the
BACKUP.CLD file to update DCLTABLES.EXE. After installing the
VAXBACK01_062 kit, users saw error messages due to a missing
/NO_INCREMENTAL qualifier.
If systems in the cluster utilize different DCLTABLES, even if
booting from a common system disk, this kit must be installed
on those systems to update the DCLTABLES.EXE.
Problems Addressed in the VAXBACK01_062 Kit:
o Incremental restores may get an INCDELERR error message and
loop continuously when attempting to perform a directory tree
delete on a specific DIR filespec. The following text is an
example of the message syntax:
%BACKUP-E-INCDELERR, error deleting
$4$DUA153:[GHONEY.WINDATA.NETSCAPE.CACHE]CACHE.DIR;1
-SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHFILE, no such file
o A possible ACCVIO (access violation) can occur when backing up
volume sets, particularly individual relative volumes.
o A possible loss of device cacheability when volume labels are
overwritten could occur. Tape subsystems behave differently.
Re-initializing a tape device cache value on volume switches
may result in the loss of characteristic. The type of tape
subsystem and its stickiness of characteristic aggravates the
problem.
o One cannot append to a non-expired tape on saveset appends when
using the /EXACT_LABEL qualifier. Tape_expiration logic has a
check specifically for the (/EXACT_LABEL) qualifier.
o BACKUP may invoke a Restart operation during a network RESTORE
operation when the link breaks. BACKUP was treating the
network saveset read as if it were a tape device.
o A new qualifier was added to invoke pre-OpenVMS V6.2 /SINCE
behavior.
After enhancements to INCREMENTAL restores was done, feedback
from customers and Customer Support Centers (CSCs) indicated
that not everyone was completely pleased with the new /SINCE
behavior.
Old style (pre-OpenVMS V6.2) /SINCE behavior can be invoked by
adding the new /NO_INCREMENTAL qualifier to the BACKUP command
line.
Note that this change was implemented differently in OpenVMS
V7.1. Check the OpenVMS V7.1 release notes for that
implementation.
o After installing VAXMOUN02_062, BACKUP/NOASSIST no longer
works. However, BACKUP/ASSIST works fine.
Problems addressed in the VAXMTAA03_062 kit:
o A possible system crash occurs during Host Based RAID Unbinds
with MME code enabled. A mailbox read synchronization problem
causes the crash.
This problem only occurs when a host-based RAID UNBIND command
is done while an MME-based application is running.
This problem can occur in several different code areas of the
operating system. In order to eliminate all known instances of
this problem, the following remedial kits (or their
supersedants) will also need to be installed:
VAXSYSA02_062
VAXBACK03_062
VAXMOUN03_062
VAXINIT01_062
VAXDISM02_062
o A process using MME could potentially "miss" the VOL1 label on
a tape. Also, a process could "hang" trying to send a message
to the MME process.
Problems addressed in the VAXMTAA02_062 Kit:
o This kit is a re-issue of the VAXMTAA01_062 kit with the
OpenVMS VAX V6.2 portion only. The V6.1 section of the
VAXMTAA01_062 kit will be superseded by a future Shadowing kit.
Problems addressed in the VAXMTAA01_062 Kit:
o The system crashes with a NOBVPVCB bugcheck. The crash occurs
on the kernel stack with MTAAACP.EXE as the current image.
o The system crashes with an XQPERR while dismounting a MAD drive.
Problems Addressed in the VAXF11C01_062 Kit:
o A Non-compliant ISO 9660 CD-ROM may have been incorrectly
mastered such that the volume set fields in various ISO 9660
meta-data are left as '0'. ISO 9660 supports volume sets in
the range of 1 to 32767, so there is no volume set '0'. The
code which does volume switching, has a coding error which
causes an INVEXCPTION crash.
o The $QIO READ-ATTRUBUTES entry for ATR$C_BACKLINK fails to
return the current file/directories backlink in all cases.
This failure impacts Pathworks directory caching.
INSTALLATION NOTES:
The images in this kit will not take effect until the system is
rebooted. If there are other nodes in the VMScluster, they must
also be rebooted in order to make use of the new image(s).
If it is not possible or convenient to reboot the entire cluster at
this time, a rolling re-boot may be performed.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
This patch can be found at any of these sites:
Colorado Site
Georgia Site
Files on this server are as follows:
vaxods1_01_062.README
vaxods1_01_062.CHKSUM
vaxods1_01_062.CVRLET_TXT
vaxods1_01_062.a-dcx_vaxexe
vaxods1_01_062.CVRLET_TXT
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