Are you sure you are on 6.5PP1?

The trace you sent looks to be the threaded plfd problem fixed with 6.5
patch
mpelxj6b and was fixed in 7.5-

The patches you reference are also 6.5 version patches so makes me
wonder..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John MacLerran
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:46 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Hung Job
> 
> oops,
> just as my finger was pressing 'send', my brain was screaming 
> 'wait!, you forgot something!'
> 
> we're on mpe 7.5 pp1.
> 
> John MacLerran wrote:
> 
> >dear hp3000-l folks,
> >
> >we currently have a hung job on our system. it won't go away with an 
> >abortjob. i did a search of the archives and found some information 
> >regarding patches that may help: mpelxb3a and mpelxf7a. looking on 
> >itrc, a query on either of those leads me to mpemx76b, and 
> i'm trying 
> >to figure out if that patch would help.
> >
> >what we're seeing is that a process goes into a wait state 
> and appears 
> >to never come back.
> >
> >SOS shows the following on the hung process:
> >                   Process Detail
> >┃PIN : 1589 ┃ Prog: PHDISPAT.PHW849D.COGNOS | 
> Pri: CL210 ┃     Switches
> >┃Job :  187 ┃ User: PHWEBJA,MANAGER.COGNOS  | 
> Type:   NM ┃ CM->NM  0(0/s)┃
> >┃Ldev:   10 ┃ Fath: 1526 Bro:      Son:     | 
> CM%:  0[ 0]┃ NM->CM  0(0/s)┃
> >           CPU Usage                          Disc I/O Usage
> >┃System % :      .0  [   .0] ┃ I/Os Total :  0[  
>  0]   Rate Total:   0/sec┃
> >┃Ms Used  :       0[    582] ┃      Reads :  0[  
>  0]        Read :   0/sec┃
> >┃Per Trans:        [       ] ┃      Writes:  0[  
>  0]        Write:   0/sec┃
> >┣    Response/Transactions            Process Wait States
> >┃Prompt Resp:  -  [   - ] ┃ CPU:   [  ]  Mem:  [ 
>  ]  Dsc:  [  ]  Imp:  [  ]
> >┃First Resp :  -  [   - ] ┃ Pre:   [  ]  RIN:  [ 
>  ]  TWr:  [  ]  BIO:  [  ]
> >┃Trans Count:   0 [    0] ┃ Tim:   [  ]   FS:  [ 
>  ]  Msg:**[  ]  Oth:  [  ]
> >┃Trans/min  :      0 [    0] ┃ Current Wait: Wait queue
> >
> >
> >it's getting no time, consuming no i/os, and is in the wait 
> queue for 
> >some sort of a message, apparently.
> >
> >a trace on the process shows this:
> >
> >       PC=a.001869d8 enable_int+$2c
> >NM* 0) SP=41856360 RP=a.007620a0 
> >notify_dispatcher.block_current_process+$338
> >NM  1) SP=41856360 RP=a.00763f00 notify_dispatcher+$268 NM  2) 
> >SP=418562e0 RP=a.00230444 wait_for_active_port+$e8 NM  3) 
> SP=418561e0 
> >RP=a.002310a8 receive_from_port+$544 NM  4) SP=41856160 
> RP=a.00738eec 
> >extend_receive+$5b4 NM  5) SP=41855f60 RP=a.0073e8e0 
> >put_wait_queue.wait_for_resource+$b8
> >NM  6) SP=41855de0 RP=a.0073ee0c put_wait_queue+$37c NM  7) 
> SP=41855d20 
> >RP=a.00908188 is_wait_for_plfd+$2b0 NM  8) SP=41855be0 RP=a.00907834 
> >is_get_plfd_ptr_and_lock+$1a8 NM  9) SP=41855a20 RP=a.0135352c 
> >FFILEINFO+$1e8 NM  a) SP=41855960 RP=a.01353310 ?FFILEINFO+$8
> >         export stub: 15e.002329b8 _px_hpfopen+$540 NM  b) 
> SP=418554e0 
> >RP=15e.002300e4 _px_open+$2c NM  c) SP=41854e60 RP=15e.002300a4 
> >?_px_open+$8
> >         export stub: 755.009e29f8
> >NM  d) SP=41854e20 RP=755.009d7cc0
> >NM  e) SP=41854de0 RP=755.009d7b3c
> >NM  f) SP=41854d60 RP=755.009d7b00
> >         export stub: 755.002fd99c
> >NM 10) SP=41854d20 RP=755.002fd920
> >         export stub: 778.000528f8
> >NM 11) SP=41854ca0 RP=778.00000000
> >     (end of NM stack)
> >
> >questions:
> >1) is there any way to tell if the above named patch will 
> help this situation?
> >
> >2) is there any way to abort this process?  i've tried 
> abortjob and abortproc.
> >
> >we've come across this several times in the last few days; 
> each time, 
> >it's taken a start norecovery to get the job to go away. we have an 
> >open case with cognos, but i thought i'd find out if anyone 
> here could offer any insights.
> >
> >thanks!
> >john 'remove the nospam' maclerran
> >[log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> 
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