info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/29/85)
From: zar%xhmeia@cit-hamlet.arpa I'd like to share a cute thing that happened to our system yesterday. Users of my system started to complain that the DEBUGGER didn't work. The problem showed itself as follows: $ FORTRAN/DEBUG prog $ LINK/DEBUG prog $ RUN prog %RMS-F-FNM, error in file name $ After a desperate search for why this was happening, I looked at the system logical table and saw an entry for DBG$INPUT but none for DBG$OUTPUT. Typing "ASS/SYS SYS$OUTPUT: DBG$OUTPUT" cured the problem. Although a file name error is the reason for killing the DEBUGGER, it seems as if a stack dump would have been better (what happens when a user has an open statement referencing a file that doesn't exist w/no error traps).