Read Before Installing MPE/iX PowerPatch 1 Based on Release 6.5 (30216-90319)

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Information You Need Before Installing MPE/iX 6.5 PowerPatch 1

Patch Bundle for MPE/iX 6.5 (ODILX77)

The ODILX77 patch bundle for MPE/iX 6.5 ﬁxes several intermittent problems. A special

process is required to install this patch. (See following Process for Installing the ODILX77

Patch Bundle for MPE/iX 6.5)

Problem 1 (CHART JAGad09956). On some systems, issuing the SSD command (system

shutdown) via cstm will hang the system.

Problem 2 (CHART JAGad09957). On heavily loaded systems, none of the STM tools will

run. The more heavily loaded the system, the greater the chance of this problem occurring.

Symptoms: tools abort from cstm with a message similar to the following.

-- Error --

Failed to start running a utility.

An unexpected failure occurred

in the Support Tool system.

The User Interface is

disconnecting from the Unit

Under Test. Please Refer to the

UI Activity Log for more details.

Problem 3 (no CHART #). At bootup, about 25 identical copies of the following entry are

logged into the test activity log. The error information in this entry is obsolete and can be

ignored.

After the patch is installed, these entries are no longer logged to the test activity log at

bootup.

Access system call failed with errno (2), when

diaglogd daemon attempted to determine if program ﬁle

(/usr/sbin/stm/uut/bin/diaglogd_progs/pharaymon_exec)

exists and is executable.

ENOENT(2) errno returned from an access system call

indicates that the ﬁle does not exist.

Possible Causes/Recommended Action:

Create the program ﬁle. Problem 4 (CHART JAGac95177). When the DUmp option is

used in the tool TERMDSM, the tool may fail to take the dump of the requested port.