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Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1994, 1997.  All rights reserved.

PRODUCT:     OpenVMS Alpha

COMPONENTS:  VERIFY - VERIFY.EXE
             FILMNTMSG - FILMNTMSG.EXE

SOURCE:      Digital Equipment Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  ALPVERI03_061
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  ALPVERI01_071 (V6.1 Only)
                                           ALPVERI01_062 (V6.1 Only)
                                           AXPVERI02_061 (AXPVERI)
                                           AXPVERI01_061
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  790 Blocks
     Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS Alpha V6.1, V6.1-1H1, V6.1-1H2
     System/Cluster Reboot Necessary:  No

     Installation Rating:  2 - To be installed on all systems running
                                the listed version(s) of OpenVMS and
                                using the following feature(s):

                                     VERIFY Utility

     NOTE:  In order to receive the full ANAL/DISK fix listed under the
            heading "Problems Addressed in the ALPVERI01_062 Kit:", the
            following remedial kit(s) also need to be installed:

                 ALPCLIU01_062


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for VERIFY.EXE on OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 through V6.1-1H2.
This kit addresses the following problems:

Problems Addressed in the ALPVERI03_061 Kit:

  o  VERIFY does not flag files, which are directly back linked to
     themselves, as having invalid backlinks.

  o  VERIFY hangs in an infinite loop during its scan of the directory
     structure.


Problems Addressed in the ALPVERI01_071 Kit:

  o  ANALYZE/DISK goes into an infinite loop.

     VERIFY has incorrectly 'fixed' the backlink of a lost directory to
     point to itself.  The next time VERIFY is run, it encounters the
     lost directory and goes into a tight loop following the directory's
     backlink.


Problems Addressed in the ALPVERI01_062 Kit for OpenVMS Alpha V6.1,
V6.1-1H1, V6.1-1H2:

  o  Errors similar to these may occur during execution of the
     'ANALYZE/DISK' DCL command:

          %ANALDISK-W-CHKALTHOME, invalid alternate home block, VBN 3,
           RVN 1

          %ANALDISK-W-CHKALTHOME, invalid alternate home block, VBN 4,
           RVN 1

          %ANALDISK-W-CHKALTHOME, invalid alternate home block, VBN 5,
           RVN 1

     This problem has been corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V7.0.


Problems Addressed in the AXPVERI02_061 Kit for OpenVMS Alpha V6.1,
V6.1-1H1, V6.1-1H2:

  o  When running ANAL/DISK/REPAIR, a directory that is reported as
     having bad backlinks may be completely erased if it contains an
     alias pointing to itself.

     This problem has been corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V7.0.

  o  When running ANAL/DISK, an error may be returned from LIB  (for
     example, "-LIB-F-BADBLOSIZ, bad block size") and a user-mode
     crash may occur.

     This problem has been corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V7.0.

  o  ANAL/DISK does not notice out of order file names or versions
     within a directory block.

     This problem has been corrected in OpenVMS Alpha V7.0.


Problems Addressed in the AXPVERI01_061 Kit:

  o  When ANAL/DISK/REPAIR is run on a volume containing corrupt
     directory files, the system crashes with an UNXSIGNAL bugcheck.

     NOTE:  Verify has been changed so all errors detected by the XQP
            are also detected by ANAL/DISK and fixed if ANAL/DISK/REPAIR
            is used.  Bad RVNs (relative volume numbers) in directory
            files are now removed properly and ANAL/DISK/REPAIR will not
            bugcheck when fixing a broken directory.

     This problem will be fixed in a future release of OpenVMS Alpha.


RELATED ARTICLES:

Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in the
OPENVMS database.  To view these articles, open the appropriate product
database and perform a query using either of the following search
strings:  'ALPVERI03_061','ALPVERI', or 'AXPVERI'.


ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:

If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool.  If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:

     [AES] How To Electronically Request ECO Kits Using Service Tools


INSTALLATION NOTES:

The system does not need to be rebooted after this kit is installed.
However, if you have other nodes in your OpenVMS VMScluster, they should
be rebooted or you should install this kit on each system in order to
make use of the new image(s).
  
  ==========================================================================
  |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
  | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  | FILMNTMSG.EXE              | AA3D0131 | X-13            | 12-APR-1997  |
  |                                       |                 | 04:18:00.41  |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
  | VERIFY.EXE                 | 2C5D4354 | X-19            | 18-SEP-1997  |
  |                                       |                 | 15:31:00.73  |
  +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+