Paul,
 
We had that problem under 4.0 - seems to cleared itself up under 5.0.
The way we handled it under 4.0, unfortunately, was to take the system
down and reboot it with Start Norecovery.  (HP's answer, not ours)
 
If someone else has another idea - by all means...
 
Best,
Joe Geiser
 
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From:   Paul H. Christidis
Sent:   Tuesday, July 23, 1996 1:57 PM
To:     Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L
Subject:        Purging a 'stuck' spoolfile
 
To all,
 
I have a spoolfile that has been in a 'delete pending' state for almost a
month.  When I try to list/purge it using the corresponding MPE commands I
get (FSERR 105) Bad variable block structure message (see below).  Can
anyone suggest of a way to purge this darn thing?
 
Thanks
 
Paul H. Christidis
 
 
<SYS>:LISTF  O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL,-3
********************
FILE: O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL
 
FILE CODE : 1516                FOPTIONS: ASCII,VARIABLE,CCTL,SPOOL
BLK FACTOR: 1                   CREATOR : MANAGER.SYS
REC SIZE: 1008(BYTES)           LOCKWORD:
BLK SIZE: 1024(BYTES)           SECURITY--READ    : CR
EXT SIZE: 0(SECT)                         WRITE   : CR
NUM REC: 586                              APPEND  : CR
NUM SEC: 96                               LOCK    : CR
NUM EXT: 1                                EXECUTE : CR
MAX REC: 22                             **SECURITY IS ON
                                FLAGS   : NO ACCESSORS
NUM LABELS: 0                   CREATED : TUE, JUN 25, 1996,  1:00 AM
MAX LABELS: 0                   MODIFIED: TUE, JUN 25, 1996, 12:38 PM
DISC DEV #: 31                  ACCESSED: TUE, JUN 25, 1996, 12:38 PM
SEC OFFSET: 0                   LABEL ADDR: $0000018C.$00014720
VOLCLASS  : MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET:DISC
 
 
<SYS>:PURGE O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL
BAD VARIABLE BLOCK STRUCTURE  (FSERR 105)
Unable to purge file "O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL". (CIERR 384)
<SYS>:REDO P
PRINT O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL
<SYS>:PRINT O69973.OUT.HPSPOOL
            ^
BAD VARIABLE BLOCK STRUCTURE  (FSERR 105)
The PRINT command failed. (CIERR 9080)
<SYS>: