VMS 6.2 – 7.1 Console Issue

We see an issue on one of our test systems when installing VMS 6.2, 7.0, and 7.1 from an ISO image that we are unable to reproduce on any of our other test systems. The VMS installation will run normally. During the final reboot after the automatic AUTOGEN phase, error messages similar to those shown below will be displayed. The system will boot, but you will be unable to log in via the console.

The workaround is to <Ctrl^P> the emulator and boot again. There is no need to restart the emulator. On the second VMS boot the problem goes away.

If you encounter this problem, please post your host hardware information and the Windows O/S under which you are running FreeAXP to this thread. Include whether it is a 32 or 64-bit edition of Windows.

< class='quote' style='width:400px;white-space:nowrap;overflow:auto'><code style='white-space:nowrap'>
%ADA-I-CONSTRAINT_ERRO, CONSTRAINT_ERROR
-ADA-F-CONSTRAINT_ERRO, CONSTRAINT_ERROR
%ADA-F-CONSTRAINT_ERRO, CONSTRAINT_ERROR
-ADA-I-EXCRAIPRI, Exception raised prior to PC = 00057B48
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 17-NOV-1858 00:00:05.15 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on VMS062
%SECSRV-E-NOPROXYDB, cannot find proxy database file NET$PROXY.DAT
%RMS-E-FNF, file not found

%TRACE-E-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
Image Name Module Name Routine Name Line Number rel PC abs PC
ADARTL 0 00054C94 003DEC94
0 80495D44 80495D44

---

above condition handler called with exception 00318324:
%ADA-F-CONSTRAINT_ERRO, CONSTRAINT_ERROR
-ADA-I-EXCRAIPRI, Exception raised prior to PC = 00057B48

---

end of exception message
0 82F842BC 82F842BC
ADARTL 0 00037BBC 003C1BBC
SECURITY_SER 0 00047B48 00057B48
SECURITY_SER 0 0007D25C 0008D25C
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 17-NOV-1858 00:00:05.17 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on VMS062
%SECSRV-E-NOPROXYDB, cannot find proxy database file NET$PROXY.DAT
%RMS-E-FNF, file not found

SECURITY_SER ADA$ELAB_SECURI 0 000300C0 000400C0
ADARTL 0 00054E18 003DEE18
ADARTL 0 00054594 003DE594
ADARTL 0 0003F4D0 003C94D0
SECURITY_SER ADA$ELAB_SECURI 0 0003005C 0004005C
SECURITY_SER 0 0008773C 0009773C
0 83082170 83082170
<br><br><br></code><hr>

Bruce,

given that you've just announced support for V6.2, V7.0 and V7.1, this must really be a 'new' problem.

Have you tried or seen it on a real Alpha ? Based on the obvious and easy workaround, this may even be an 'old' OpenVMS problem, although I could not find anything in the old patches (except in VAXLOAD02_061).

Once SECURITY_SERVER is up and running, could you please provide the following data:

$ ANAL/SYS
SDA&gt; SET PROC SECURITY_SERVER
SDA&gt; EXA/INS 00057B48-40;80

Volker.

We only see the problem on one box. That's what's so unusual. I'll run your commands the next time the box is available.

Bruce,

if you think this may be reproducable - maybe only on that one box, try to take a Windows copy of the system .vdisk in that state prior to the FIRST full boot after the AUTOGEN after the installation.

If the problem is related to the contents on the disk, you should be able to easily reproduce the problem with a copy of the disk in that state. Make another copy before you try it, so you preserve that state in case the problem really is reproducable.

As an alternative, stop FreeAXP before the final boot, restart it and then boot. This will tell you, if the problem somehow depends on the state of FreeAXP.

You can provide the instruction stream data from any other system running the SAME version of OpenVMS, with which you've seen this failure.

Debugging this may be a problem, because an undocumented SET SERVER/START/DUMP qualifier had been added, but apparently only for V7.3 and above.

Volker.

Here's test results run on the box with the ADA problem (MSI02) and a box that does not see the ADA problem (MSI01).

SETUP (MSI02)

- Launch FreeAXP 271.

- Build VMS 6.2 from VMS 6.2 installation ISO.

- Save disk image after build and before boot that runs automatic AUTOGEN.


TEST 1 (MSI02)

- Continue from SETUP without restarting FreeAXP 271.

- Boot VMS 6.2 disk and let AUTOGEN/Reboot execute.

- See ADA errors. Cannot log in at console.

- ^P

- Reboot VMS 6.2.

- System boots without errors.

- Log in and run following commands:

< class='quote' style='width:400px;white-space:nowrap;overflow:auto'><code style='white-space:nowrap'>$ ANAL/SYS

OpenVMS (TM) Alpha System analyzer

SDA&gt; SET PROC SECURITY_SERVER
SDA&gt; EXA/INS 00057B48-40;80
00057B08: LDQ R27,#X0028(R2)
00057B0C: JSR R26,(R26)
00057B10: LDL R0,#X0010(FP)
00057B14: BIS R31,R0,R6
00057B18: TRAPB
00057B1C: LDA R1,#X0833(R31)
00057B20: CMPLE R6,R1,R16
00057B24: LDA R17,#X076D(R31)
00057B28: XOR R16,#X01,R16
00057B2C: CMPLT R6,R17,R18
00057B30: BIS R18,R16,R18
00057B34: BEQ R18,#X000004
00057B38: BIS R31,R31,R25
00057B3C: LDQ R26,#X0020(R2)
00057B40: LDQ R27,#X0028(R2)
00057B44: JSR R26,(R26)
00057B48: LDA R1,#X076D(R31)
00057B4C: LDL R0,#X001C(FP)
00057B50: LDA R16,#X0833(R31)
00057B54: CMPLT R6,R1,R17
00057B58: CMPLE R6,R16,R18
00057B5C: BNE R17,#X00003F
00057B60: BEQ R18,#X00003E
00057B64: LDA R19,#XFFFF(R31)
00057B68: CMPEQ R0,R19,R20
00057B6C: CMPULT R31,R0,R0
00057B70: XOR R20,#X01,R20
00057B74: AND R0,R20,R20
00057B78: TRAPB
00057B7C: BEQ R20,#X000004
00057B80: LDQ R26,#X0020(R2)
00057B84: BIS R31,R31,R25
00057B88: LDQ R27,#X0028(R2)
SDA&gt;<br><br><br></code>

TEST 2 (MSI01)

- Copy pre-AUTOGEN disk image to a different host system.

- Launch FreeAXP 271.

- Boot pre-AUTOGEN disk.

- Runs AUTOGEN and reboots without errors.

- Login from console and run following commands:

< class='quote' style='width:400px;white-space:nowrap;overflow:auto'><code style='white-space:nowrap'>$ anal/sys

OpenVMS (TM) Alpha System analyzer

SDA&gt; SET PROC SECURITY_SERVER
SDA&gt; EXA/INS 00057B48-40;80
00057B08: LDQ R27,#X0028(R2)
00057B0C: JSR R26,(R26)
00057B10: LDL R0,#X0010(FP)
00057B14: BIS R31,R0,R6
00057B18: TRAPB
00057B1C: LDA R1,#X0833(R31)
00057B20: CMPLE R6,R1,R16
00057B24: LDA R17,#X076D(R31)
00057B28: XOR R16,#X01,R16
00057B2C: CMPLT R6,R17,R18
00057B30: BIS R18,R16,R18
00057B34: BEQ R18,#X000004
00057B38: BIS R31,R31,R25
00057B3C: LDQ R26,#X0020(R2)
00057B40: LDQ R27,#X0028(R2)
00057B44: JSR R26,(R26)
00057B48: LDA R1,#X076D(R31)
00057B4C: LDL R0,#X001C(FP)
00057B50: LDA R16,#X0833(R31)
00057B54: CMPLT R6,R1,R17
00057B58: CMPLE R6,R16,R18
00057B5C: BNE R17,#X00003F
00057B60: BEQ R18,#X00003E
00057B64: LDA R19,#XFFFF(R31)
00057B68: CMPEQ R0,R19,R20
00057B6C: CMPULT R31,R0,R0
00057B70: XOR R20,#X01,R20
00057B74: AND R0,R20,R20
00057B78: TRAPB
00057B7C: BEQ R20,#X000004
00057B80: LDQ R26,#X0020(R2)
00057B84: BIS R31,R31,R25
00057B88: LDQ R27,#X0028(R2)
SDA&gt;<br><br><br></code><hr>

One additional thing to note. On both systems a SHOW ERROR reveals the following:

< class='quote' style='width:400px;white-space:nowrap;overflow:auto'><code style='white-space:nowrap'>$ sh err
Device Error Count
VMS062$PKA0: 1
VMS062$DKA0: 2<br><br><br></code><hr>