When you boot your system do a
START NORECOVERY NOSYSSTART

This will eliminate the UDC's and should free up your files then reboot again
without the nosysstart

HTH
Joe
>  I'm posting on behalf of someone that doesn't have access to the NG so I'll
> do my best to get any further info if it's needed. He has a corrupted file
> (YINPUT.BACKG.VESOFT) which is giving the error 'BAD VARIABLE BLOCK
> STRUCTURE  (FSERR 105)', this file can't be purged & FSCHECK gives '*Error:
> File to be purged is being accessed by other users. (fscheck 19)'.
>
> VESOFT's BACKG cannot be stopped because of this file, an MPE ABORTJOB
> doesn't work & even after several cold-boot's the job returns with the same
> job number, hogging resources; so we have a circular problem, can't stop
> BACKG because of corrupted file, can delete the file because BACKG is using
> it! Is there any other way to stop BACKG?
>
> HP918, mpe 6.5, express 7.
>
> Thanks, J
>
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