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ALPDDTM03_071 Alpha V7.1 - V7.1-1H2 DDTM ECO Summary
Copyright (c) Compaq Computer Corporation 1999, 2000. All rights reserved.
Modification Date: 29-SEP-2000
Modification Type: Updated Kit: Supersedes ALPDDTM02_071
OP/SYS: OpenVMS Alpha
COMPONENT: DTI$SHARE
TPSERVE
TRANSACTION_SERVICES
SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation
ECO INFORMATION:
ECO Kit Name: ALPDDTM03_071
ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: ALPDDTM02_071
ALPDDTM01_071
ECO Kit Approximate Size: 1278 Blocks
Kit Applies To: OpenVMS Alpha V7.1, V7.1-1H1, V7.1-1H2
System/Cluster Reboot Necessary: Yes
Rolling Re-boot Supported: Yes
Installation Rating: 3 - To be installed on all systems running
the listed versions of OpenVMS which
are experiencing the problems described.
Kit Dependencies:
The following remedial kit(s) must be installed BEFORE
installation of this kit:
ALPBASE02_071
In order to receive all the corrections listed in this
kit, the following remedial kits should also be installed:
None
ECO KIT SUMMARY:
An ECO kit exists for TPSERV, Transactions services and DTI$SHARE on
OpenVMS Alpha V7.1 through V7.1-1H2. This kit addresses the following
problems:
Problems Addressed in ALPDDTM03_071:
o The TP_SERVER process consumes CPU cycles, eventually leading
to a SSRVEXCEPT System crash at insruction INSQUEL.
Images Affected: [SYSEXE]TPSERV.EXE
o A system crash occurs with the following DDTMBUG bugcheck at
offset SYS$TRANSACTION_SERVICES_NPRO+00D10:
DDTMBUG, DDTM has detected an invalid XPCB$V_EVENT_INPROG
Images Affected: [SYS$LDR]SYS$TRANSACTION_SERVICES.EXE
Problems Addressed in ALPDDTM02_071:
o The TP_SERVER process hangs.
o ACMS SI, Rdb SQL and/or DECdtm $ADD_BRANCH(W) calls fail with
the error IPC-E-BCKTRNSFAIL. This problem occurs for DECnet
PLUS, where a distributed transaction is being initiated.
DECdtm was passing a node name to DECnet PLUS, requesting a
DECnet PLUS equivalent node name.
o A SSRVEXCEPT (ACCVIO) in SYS$TRANSACTION_SERVICES occurs when
an RDB recovery process is killed after it is identified as
stalling the system.
o A machine crash occurred with a SSRVEXCEPT error at TPSERV+22800.
Problems Adddressed in ALPDDTM01_071:
o An RDB/ACMS application was ported from OpenVMS VAX to OpenVMS
Alpha. When the full user load was on the nodes, they
intermittently crashed about once a day due to nonpaged pool
corruption of 128 byte packets.
o System bootup cannot start TP_SERVER. Manually starting it
with DECDTM$STARTUP failed with STR-F-ERRFREDYN.
o Errors were returned by $START_TRANSW in a program compiled
and linked with the symbolic debugger. This problem was most
frequently seen when the calling program was (using debugger)
stepped through. Some of the errors seen were ACCVIOs (PC was
zero), $START_TRANSW returning SS$_BADPARAM, SS$_IVBUFLEN
and/or the debugger signaling stack corruption in
SHARE$LIBRTL_CODE0. This problem was not seen if the async
form of the service ($START_TRANS) was used.
RELATED ARTICLES:
Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
the OPENVMS database. To view these articles, open the appropriate
product database and perform a query using either of the following
search strings: 'ALPDDTM03_071' or 'ALPDDTM'.
ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:
If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool. If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:
[AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools
INSTALLATION NOTES:
The images in this kit will not take effect until the system is
rebooted. If there are other nodes in the VMScluster, they must
also be rebooted in order to make use of the new image(s).
If it is not possible or convenient to reboot the entire cluster at
this time, a rolling re-boot may be performed.
==========================================================================
| Table of Kit Image Information |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| | Overall | Image File | Image Link |
| Image Name | Checksum | Identification | Date/Time |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| DTI$SHARE.EXE | E948F632 | V1.3-X035-X6C7 | 17-APR-2000 |
| | | 03:09:37.80 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| SYS$TRANSACTION_SERVICES.EXE| 61FAD0DA | V1.3-X035-X6C7 | 17-APR-2000 |
| | | 03:36:09.42 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
| TPSERV.EXE | B9C4D213 | V1.3-X035-X6C7 | 17-APR-2000 |
| | | 03:38:39.35 |
+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
|
