Beware of doing this when you have pending IOs on a tape drive!
This is a known issue with MPE that I do not believe has a patch. If you
stop diagnostics (or predictive, I believe) when a drive has a pending IO
(waiting), the drive may possibly hang.
We had a process that was stopping and restarting diagnostics every night
(some ancient thing someone else had written -- not sure why it was in
there) and were having problems with tape drives not AVRing. Turned out
this is why.
According to HP, the only reason to stop diagnostics manually is when you
have to issue a netcontrol stop command (not sure about nscontrol, but
don't think so).
I realize this is a one-time thing, but just thought I'd throw this out
there for people to consider. It's a very odd problem, but it exists.
John Testa
SLPS Homewood
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Denis St-Amand
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Systems Discussion and patch depe ndencies
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11/04/2004 12:02 PM
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Denis St-Amand
Pascal,
Go into Posix Shell (XEQ SH.HPBIN.SYS -L), then use following commands:
Shell/iX>ps -ef | grep stm <= It will show you remaining stm processes
Shell/iX>kill -n pid <= replace pid by diagmond process number
Shell/iX>ps -ef | grep stm <= Should no longer show stm processese
By the way, cstm daemons are automatically lauched at system restart (when
you see message "successfully launched diagnostic monitor" message at
console so using START NORECOVERY NOSYSSTART will not forbid those starting
!
Hope this will help!
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"Pascal Luyckx" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Craig,
>
> This is also the first time I have this problem.
> I did a START NORECOVERY NOSYSSTART and I also removed the Netbase shell.
>
> I had a problem with predictive (error 200) and this patch should fix
this
> error.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pascal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Lalley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:12 PM
> To: Pascal Luyckx
> Subject: Re: STMXL file in use when installing HP patch OSPM58A and patch
> depe ndencies
>
> Pascal,
>
> Believe it or not, I can honestly say, I have never had this problem.
>
> Are you doing a START NORECOVERY NOSYSSTART?
>
> What does the OSPM58A patch fix?
>
> -Craig
>
>
> --- Pascal Luyckx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Also tried STMSHUT, but diagmond process keeps running.
> >
> > Pascal
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig Lalley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:05 PM
> > To: Pascal Luyckx
> > Subject: Re: STMXL file in use when installing HP patch OSPM58A and
> > patch depe ndencies
> >
> > STMSHUT.DIAG.SYS ?
> >
> > -Craig
> >
> >
> > --- Pascal Luyckx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Craig,
> > >
> > > No, I did not start the network before running Patch/iX the second
time.
> > > I just rebooted the system, did a startspool and streams on the
> > > console and launched patchix for the second time on the console.
> > >
> > > Any other ideas?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Pascal
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Craig Lalley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:41 PM
> > > To: Pascal Luyckx
> > > Subject: Re: STMXL file in use when installing HP patch OSPM58A and
> > > patch depe ndencies
> > >
> > > Pascal,
> > >
> > > Did you start the network before running Patch/iX a second time?
> > >
> > > You should only
> > >
> > > Logon on (console)
> > >
> > > :startspool lp
> > > :streams 10
> > >
> > > :run patchix
> > >
> > > That should work
> > >
> > > -Craig
> > >
> > > --- Pascal Luyckx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi HP3000-L list,
> > > >
> > > > I downloaded patch OSPMX58A and its patch dependencies for MPE/iX
> > > > 7.0 from the it resource center and installed it with Patch/iX. I
> > > > updated the system from the CSLT tape and started the second phase
> > > > of Patch/iX. Patch/iX then streams 3 installation jobs, but I
> > > > encounter a problem with the installation of patch ODIMXQ2C. The
> > > > following message is displayed on the
> > > > console:
> > > >
> > > > *********************************************
> > > > * STMXL.DIAG.SYS library is in use. *
> > > > * Critical diagnostics files will not be *
> > > > * able to be replaced if they are in use. *
> > > > * ODIMXQ2 C is unable to continue. *
> > > > *********************************************
> > > >
> > > > I check who is accessing the STMXL file :
> > > >
> > > > :listf stmxl.diag.sys,9
> > > > ********************
> > > > FILE: STMXL.DIAG.SYS
> > > > 1 Accessor(O:1,P:1,L:0,W:0,R:1),Share
> > > > system MANAGER.SYS P:1,L:0,W:1,R:1 LDEV:
> > > > #P52 (/usr/sbin/stm/uut/bin/sys/diagmond)
> > > > ACCESS: R,X,L-gmulti REC#: 0 FNUM: 22
> > > > LOCKS: none
> > > >
> > > > I try to stop the diagmond process by executing STMSHUT.DIAG.SYS,
> > > > but the diagmond process keeps on running. I then try to kill the
> > > > process with the ABORTPROC command, but then my session is aborted.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any other way of killing the diagmond process?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Pascal Luyckx
> > > > Cheops technology nv
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