info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (12/15/84)
From: engvax!KVC@cit-vax From: ENGVAX::"scgvaxd!gordon" 11-DEC-1984 22:48 To: kvc Received: by scgvaxd.UUCP (4.12/4.7) id AA06287; Tue, 11 Dec 84 22:50:03 pst Date: Tue, 11 Dec 84 22:50:03 pst From: scgvaxd!gordon (69661) Message-Id: <8412120650.AA06287@scgvaxd.UUCP> To: kvc Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site scgvaxd.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site boulder.UUCP Path: scgvaxd!trwrb!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!cires!boulder!jon From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jon Corbet) Newsgroups: net.decus Subject: Bizarre VMS command file problem Message-ID: <252@boulder.UUCP> Date: 25 Nov 84 17:35:40 GMT Date-Received: 27 Nov 84 13:21:13 GMT Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research Lines: 29 [please don't eat this line] We have an 11/780 running VMS, and have experienced a very strange problem lately. Every now and then, while running a command file, the system just goes out and deletes the process doing the reading. The problem is reproducible -- if it happens once with a given command file, it will happen again the next time the file is invoked. Using "set verify", I have noticed that the deletion occurs on just about any command, real examples are "PRINT", "TYPE", and "INSTALL". Editing the file will eventually fix the problem, but sometimes 3 or more new versions need to be created before the things work. This gremlin just struck our SYS$MANAGER:SYSTARTUP.COM file, which, needless to say, adversely affects the bootstrap process (not to mention my thanksgiving break when the early morning phone calls come in). Running ACC on the dead processes yields an exit status implying that access violations have taken place. It seems that the error must occur in executive mode, since it causes instant termination of the process. Has anybody seen this problem before? Any suggestions? Many thanks, Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research {seismo|hplabs}!hao!boulder!jon (Thanks to the CU CS department) P.S. Please, no messages telling me to run UN*X. That is simply not a viable option for us. Thanks.