Lars Appel writes:
> > The other phenomen may be linked to this ... it looks like that a
> > START NORECOVERY is needed to free up these directories.
>
> That one sounds somehwat like the "rm -r" issue that has been introduced
> with a certain patch on MPE/iX 5.5 (the exact ID exacpes me) and which
> can be fixed by a more recent patch (maybe still in beta). Unfortunately
> the latter patch ID also escapes me at present, but it should pop up by
> a quick search in the HP3000-L archives using keywords like "rm -r and
> markb or bixby" (as Mark found the issue and also reported when the patch
> became available ;-)

The bad patch is MPEJXV9B and is *still* being sent as a part of PowerPatch 6
which I received a couple of days ago.  However, I see that MPEJXV9B is listed
as "not available" on the HP ESC.

MPEKXL0A is the patch that fixes the problem introduced by MPEJXV9B.
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