Error installing VMS from hobbyist CD

Thanks. We are trying to come up with a way to reproduce your issue. We have an old Acer laptop running Windows XP 32-bit on an Intel T2080 processor, 1.7GHz, 2GM memory. We use it as a FreeAXP test bed. How close is this to your hardware?

Hey Bruce,

I've PM'ed you the config for the machine I'm using. Hopefully you've received it!

Steve

< class='quote'>[b:]Bruce Claremont wrote:[/b:]
Thanks. We are trying to come up with a way to reproduce your issue. We have an old Acer laptop running Windows XP 32-bit on an Intel T2080 processor, 1.7GHz, 2GM memory. We use it as a FreeAXP test bed. How close is this to your hardware?

Hi All,

Sorry to post over here , but I would like to know if this can be a similar problem.
I unzip a file (master.zip) which has 1.07 GB and after that the Openvms is showing problems (you can see below)

Could this problem be associated with the same as described on this thread ?



OO11:SYSTEM&gt; sh dev d

Device Device Errors Volume Free Trans Mnt
Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt
$1$DKA0: (SMOO11) Online 0
$1$DKA100: (SMOO11) Online 0
$1$DKA200: (SMOO11) Online 0
$1$DKA300: (SMOO11) Online 0
$1$DKA400: (SMOO11) Mounted 0 OO11_SYS 68721792 386 1
$1$DKA500: (SMOO11) Online wrtlck 0
$1$DKA600: (SMOO11) Online wrtlck 0
$1$DVA0: (SMOO11) Offline 0

The VMS commands runs correctly:

OO11:SYSTEM&gt; SH DEF
SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]
= SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]
= SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]

OO11:SYSTEM&gt; DIR *.DIR

Directory SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]

DT.DIR;1

OO11:SYSTEM&gt; dir master*.zip /size=units=bytes

Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[SAVESETS]

MASTER.ZIP;1 452.94MB

Total of 1 file, 452.94MB
OO11:SYSTEM&gt;


OO11:SYSTEM&gt; unzip -l -v MASTER.ZIP;1
Get RMS defaults. getjpi sts = %x00000001.
Default: deq = 0, mbc = 0, mbf = 0.
Open callback. ID = 1, deq = 16384, mbc = 127, mbf = 2.
Archive: SYS$SYSDEVICE:[SAVESETS]MASTER.ZIP;1
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name

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1157603328 Defl:N 474929631 59% 03-31-08 09:58 d8d98ab6 master_52_d.bck

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1157603328 474929631 59% 1 file


TAM = 1157603328 --&gt;1.07 GB




OO11:SYSTEM&gt; unzip master.zip
Archive: SYS$SYSDEVICE:[SAVESETS]MASTER.ZIP;1
inflating: master_52_d.bck



After that :

OO11:SYSTEM&gt; dir
%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image DIRECTORY
-CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file $1$DKA400:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]DIRECTORY.EXE
-SYSTEM-F-PROTINSTALL, protected images must be installed


OO11:SYSTEM&gt; show log
%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image SHOW
-CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file $1$DKA400:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]SHOW.EXE
-SYSTEM-F-PROTINSTALL, protected images must be installed

OO11:SYSTEM&gt; help
%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image VMSHELP
-CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file $1$DKA400:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]VMSHELP.EXE
-SYSTEM-F-PROTINSTALL, protected images must be installed<hr>

Yes, I believe this is the same problem. This is the third report of this problem under FreeAXP-32. One user was able to resolve the issue by moving to FreeAXP-64.

We are testing FreeAXP-32 in-house with heavy I/O processes and large file copies in hopes of reproducing the problem. I will keep you posted.

I am testing against a 32-bit FreeAXP configuration running on an Acer laptop configured with an Intel T2080 processor and 2GB of RAM. I am trying to trigger the corruption problem using file activity against one of the virtual disks. I set up a COPY/FTP from another VMS node to this system and let it run 998 times without error. I am now adding a proper set of FTP calls to the test procedure to see if that will trigger the problem. The basic test sequence is:

1) Copy over some large files.
2) Verify they are present and the disk is still accessible.
3) Purge the files and start over.

P.S. - I backed up the system disk before starting. <img src='../images/smiley/wink.gif' alt='smiley'>

I have managed to recreate the disk corruption problem using the above scenario. We are now working on isolating the problem's source.