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VAXSHAD09_061 VAX V6.1 ECO Summary

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    Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1994, 1995. All rights reserved.
    
                          *****  WARNING!!!  *****
    
         Future OpenVMS VAX V6.1 kits that are issued for facilities
         included in the VAXSHAD09_061 kit will not install unless the
         VAXSHAD09_061 kit is installed on your system first.  It is
         highly recommended that the complete VAXSHAD09_061 remedial kit
         be installed as soon as possible.  Installation of individual
         images from the VAXSHAD09_061 remedial kit is not supported and
         could result in unpredictable system behavior.
    
         Descriptions for problems that were corrected in previous VAX
         Shadow kits are included in the VAXSHAD09_061 Release Notes.
         The release notes can be found in the save set VAXSHAD09_061.A.
         If you have not installed a previous shadow kit it is
         recommended that you read these release notes before installing
         the VAXSHAD09_061 Shadow kit.  To access the release notes,
         restore them from the saveset by issuing a command with the
         following format:
    
         $ BACKUP/SEL=VAXSHAD09_061.RELEASE_NOTES DEVICE:[DIR]VAXSHAD09.A/SA-
           DEVICE:[DIR]VAXSHAD09_061.RELEASE_NOTES
    
    
    PRODUCT:     Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS  (Phase II)
    
                 NOTE:  The problems fixed in this ECO Kit also affect the
                        following products:
    
                             VAXcluster Software for OpenVMS VAX
                             VAXcluster Console System (VCS)
    
    OP/SYS:      OpenVMS VAX
    
    COMPONENTS:  System, Bugcheck, Backup,
                 Mount, Dismount, MSCP, TMSCP, MTAAACP,
                 I/O Routines, Audit Server,
                 Security, System Primitives,
                 Adaptive Pool Management (APM),
                 Operator Communication Manager (OPCOM),
                 User Environmental Test Package (UETP),
                 Media Management Extensions (MME)
    
    SOURCE:      Digital Equipment Corporation
    
    ECO INFORMATION:
    
         ECO Kit Name:  VAXSHAD09_061
         ECO Kits Superseded by and Included in this ECO Kit:
    
              VAXSHADFT09_061  (Never Officially Released)
              VAXSHAD08_061    (Never Officially Released)
              VAXSHAD07_061    (For OpenVMS VAX V6.1 systems only)
              VAXSHAD06_061
              VAXSHAD05_061
              VAXSHAD04_061
              VAXSHAD03_061
              VAXSHAD02_061    (CSCPAT_1160)
              VAXSHAD01_061    (CSCPAT_1160)
              VAXMTAA01_062    (For OpenVMS VAX V6.1 systems only)
              VAXMTAA02_061
              VAXMTAA01_061    (CSCPAT_1154)
              VAXMONT01_061    (For OpenVMS VAX V6.1 systems only)
              VAXSYS14_061     (For OpenVMS VAX V6.1 systems only)
              VAXSYS13_061     (For OpenVMS VAX V6.1 systems only)
              VAXSYS12_061
              VAXSYS07_061
              VAXSYS01_061     (CSCPAT_1113)
              VAXMME01_061     (CSCPAT_1174)
              VAXOPCO01_061    (CSCPAT_1144)
              VAXAUDI02_061
    
         ECO Kit Size:  3960
         Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS VAX V6.1
         System/Cluster Reboot Necessary:  Yes
    
    
    CAUTION:
    
    Before Installing this Kit, Read the Following Cautions:
    
         After installation of this kit, the following issues may occur:
    
          1)  ISSUE:  When a node reboots into the cluster there may not
                      be an OPCOM message that reports the node is joining
                      the cluster.  Absent messages occur on a random
                      basis.
    
              WORKAROUND:  In order to verify the node has entered the
                           cluster, after the node has fully rebooted, the
                           user should enter the command:
    
                                $ SHOW CLUSTER
    
                           to verify the node is a valid member of the
                           VAXcluster.
    
          2) ISSUE FROM THE CSC:  An INVEXCEPTN in SNDRIVER may be seen if
                                  DECnet/SNA V2.1 is used in conjunction
                                  with the IO_ROUTINES from the VAXSHAD
                                  ECO kit.  SNAVMS_E04021 (CSCPAT_5041) will
                                  fix this problem by replacing the
                                  incompatible SNDRIVER in DECnet/SNA V2.1
    
                                  NOTE: SNAVMS_E04021 applies to
                                        DECnet/SNA V2.1 only.
    
         These issues are being addressed and will be corrected in a
         future version of OpenVMS VAX.
    
    
    ECO KIT SUMMARY:
    
    An ECO kit exists for Volume Shadowing on OpenVMS VAX V6.1.  This
    kit contains the fixes described below.
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD09_061 Kit:
    
      o  A 'SET SECURITY' or 'SET ACL' on a volume in an OpenVMS
         cluster places high I/O on the server process.   This
         exhausts paged pool and the AUDIT_SERVER goes into an
         RWPAG state.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2
    
      o  A field in the IRP that is used during Volume Processing is
         not initialized in clones of USER IOs.  If an error occurs,
         the code that determines the severity of the error can be
         misled by data in these fields.  It can fail to locate the
         error and return the IO as successful.  Since a zero-byte count
         is returned, an Incomplete Segmented Transfer error will occur.
         The fix is to initialize the field when the clone is allocated.
    
      o  While creating a page, a user process might be swapped out and
         then return using a different balance set slot.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Certain applications calling $AUDIT_EVENT with ASTs disabled
         will be interrupted when $AUDIT_EVENT returns to the caller.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2
    
      o  The code relies on a page being present when it attempts
         to release a spinlock.  If the system is paging heavily,
         the page may not be available.  This may result in pagefaults
         in EXE$BRKTHRU at IPL greater than 2.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2
    
      o  Repeating wakeups from $SCHDWK show an accumulating drift over
         time.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Magnetic tape position may be lost in differing circumstances:
    
         -  COPY and/or BACKUP of a DISK to a TMSCP-Served TAPE, will fail
            when the tape device is placed in an MV state.  The failure
            does not occur if the same task is performed locally.
    
         -  COPY will fail with: "SYSTEM-F-TAPEPOSLOST, magnetic tape
            position lost"
    
         -  BACKUP will fail with: "-SYSTEM-F-DATALOST, data lost"
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  To transition an OpenVMS process from the virtual balance set
         to the real balance set, the SPTEs (system page table entries)
         which describe its process PTE pages (process page table pages)
         need to be copied from saved memory back into the real balance
         slot from where they originally came.  This makes the process'
         P0 and P1 space accessible again.  SPTEs for the process page
         table pages describing the undefined area between P0 and P1
         must be represented by pre-initialized null values (actually,
         ERKW DZERO-type values).  When this undefined void area is
         exactly zero pages (i.e., P0 and P1 are tangent), the
         VBSS$READ_OPT2_VBSM routine takes the wrong branch, causing a
         VBSSERR bugcheck.  This fix adds a test for this case, and
         takes the image's correct branch.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS V6.2.
    
      o  When a process is switched from a real balance slot to a
         virtual balance slot, the allocation may fail, causing a
         VBSSERR bugcheck.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Incorrect quota value is returned when process quota (BYTLM) is
         returned to a process for a created system global section.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  System crashes may occur due to corrupted PTE entries.  The
         corruption appears to be Global Section Table Entries pointing
         to Global Section Descriptors.
    
         The problem occurs only if 4095 GBLSECTIONS are exceeded.  To
         check the number of Global Sections currently in use, add the
         following values:
    
         - SDA> VALIDATE QUEUE EXE$GL_GSDSYSFL     !global sections
    
         - SDA> VALIDATE QUEUE EXE$GL_GSDDELFL     !delete pending global
                                                   !sections
    
         - SDA> VALIDATE QUEUE EXE$GL_GSDGRPFL     !group global sections
    
      o  Devices can remain allocated to processes that no longer exist.
         The device remains unusable until the system is rebooted.
    
      o  If a previously shadowed disk is mounted with a MOUNT/OVER=SHADOW
         command and a new shadow set is created using this disk,
         OpenVMS VAX will attempt to create the old shadow set using the
         old physical device names.
    
      o  The system crashes with a NOBVPVCB bugcheck.  The crash occurs
         on the kernel stack with MTAAACP.EXE as the current image.
    
      o  The system crashes with an XQPERR while dismounting a MAD
         drive.
    
      o  SUBTRACED errors are not correctly determined for images installed
         with /HEADER_RESIDENT.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Users of ORACLE[R] Rdb V6.1 may get ILLIOFUNC errors when doing IO
         to a Host Based Shadowset whose members are served.
    
      o  The user will see a large number of shadow copies being done by
         OpenVMS rather than the controller, even when both disks are on
         the same controller and the controller has DCD (Disk Copy Data)
         capabilities.
    
      o  If a three-member Shadowset has its index zero member as a copy
         target and all three members require a MERGE, when the COPY
         completes the MERGE does not take place.  The LBN for the just
         completed COPY (the last LBN on the disk) is passed as the
         MERGE starting LBN, so it completes without doing any IO.
    
      o  Failures occur during attempts to start copies or restart
         copies, usually after a node halt, shutdown or reboot.
         Additional symptoms observed include inconsistent values for
         HBS_CIP when compared to SHADOW_MAX_COPY, negative values for
         HBS_CIP and copies that should continue start over from the
         beginning.
    
      o  System hangs may occur when I/Os pending to a shadow set do
         not complete.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD07_061 Kit:
    
      o  In the VAXSHAD05 and VAXSHAD06 kits two new fields were added
         to the IRP data structure for shadow write logging information.
         This new IRP definition size conflicts with the IRP sizes of
         other images on the system that are not part of the SHADOW kits.
         This conflict may cause a variety of errors, including fatal
         bugchecks.  This fix changes the IRP definitions back to the SBB
         versions and adds some special definitions to the SHDRIVER for
         the new IRP fields.
    
      o  Fatal bugchecks from data structure corruption may occur due
         to the addition of the value 10 HEX to the corrupted field.
         Crashes are of various types and include node and cluster
         crashes, crashes due to invalid UCB addresses, invalid VCB
         addresses, invalid member IDs, and invalid number of devices.
    
      o  When trying to access a DFS disk, the following error may be
          seen:
    
            -SYSTEM-F-FILALRACC, file already accessed on channel
    
         The disk can be accessed immediately after reboot; however,
         after a period of time of not accessing the disk, a simple
         directory command will return this error.
    
      o  If a tape is initialized with a non-blank accessibility field
         and then mounted using /OVERRIDE=(ACCESSIBILITY), the tape
         mounts but cannot be read or written to.  The command format
         to initialize the tape would be similar to:
    
            INIT/LABEL=VOLUME_ACCESSIBILITY="+" tape: LABEL
    
         In addition, the following OPCOM messages are generated and
         the tape volume is automatically unloaded after an attempt to
         WRITE or READ the tape volume:
    
            %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  12-DEC-1994 12:57:23.53 %%%%%%%%%%%  Message
            from  user  USERXX  on NODEXX non-blank accessibility field in
            volume labels on SYS$DEVICE:
            %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  12-DEC-1994 12:57:23.54 %%%%%%%%%%%
    
      o  MTAAACP posts attention ASTs to its mailbox.  If the AST
         QUOTA reaches zero and an attempt is made to kill the MTAAACP
         process or the process that emitted the QIO, MTAAACP will go
         into the RWAST state and hang.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD06_061 Kit:
    
      o  When using PATHWORKS, data corruption may occur on the file
         container.  The corruption can be seen by running CHKDSK on the PC
         container disk.  Also using PCDISK to IMPORT and EXPORT files to
         and from the container will show a corrupted file when EXPORTed
         back to VMS.
    
      o  System crashes with INVEXCEPTN bugcheck at SCH$POSTEF+21.
    
         To correct this problem, a change was made in the IOC$SIMREQCOM
         routine to cause the destination of the IFNOWET test to
         initialize R4 before calling the IOC$SCHEDEF routine.
         IOC$SCHEDEF expects R4 to have the address of the user's PCB.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD05_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.1:
    
      o  After a node crashes, on reboot it cannot mount a Host Based
         Volume Shadowing virtual unit.  The error message usually
         returned is "volume not software enabled"; however, "Medium
         Offline" may also be seen.  A SHOW DEVICE will show that the
         the Shadowset is in 0% merge but SNA will show that a minimerge
         is pending.
    
      o  A double deallocation crash may occur as the result of MOUNT not
         properly initializing the Mounted Volume List (MTL) pointer.  This
         pointer had a stale value as a result of two calls to SYS$VMOUNT
         from a single program.  The stale pointer will only cause a problem
         if the system is unable to allocate space for defining the logical
         name.
    
         NOTE:  Since cells are initialized at image activation, this
                problem should not occur as a result of DCL commands.
    
      o  Tape devices with stacker/loaders, such as the TF857, may take
         up to 6 minutes to rewind/unload/load the next tape.  In
         VAXSHAD01_061, a change was made to the behavior of MOUNT to take
         this delay into account.   However, a side effect of that change
         was that non-stacker drives may also wait 6 minutes before failing.
    
      o  System crashes with an INVEXCEPTN during a SHDRIVER COPY_DATA_REPAIR
         copy operation.
    
      o  If the value of the ALLOCLASS SYSGEN parameter is not set and the
         user tries to use shadowing, a shadow volume can be created but
         members cannot be added to the shadow set.  No error messages are
         received up until a second member is added.  On the MOUNT command,
         the customer will receive the error messages:
    
            $   mount   /system    dsa500    /shadow=dkb400    alphavms015
            %MOUNT-I-SHDWMEMFAIL,  DKB400 failed as a member of the shadow set
            -SYSTEM-F-INCSHAMEM, incompatible shadow set member
    
         "Incompatible" is an inappropriate statement of the problem.  A
         more accurate message would be "missing allocation class," or
         "incorrect allocation class."
    
      o  If a shadow set member is dismounted at the same time from multiple
         nodes within a cluster, I/O to the shadow set may become stalled.
    
      o  Mount will not add shadow set members unless they are either
         MSCP or SCSI.
    
      o  Shadow set member expulsion is currently based on the time it takes
         a fork & wait and a PACKACK to complete rather than the actual time
         transpired.  On some devices, particularly SCSI, where a PACKACK
         can take approximately one minute, the timeout was much too long.
         Using the default value of 20 (seconds) for SHADOW_MBR_TMO would
         actually mean that it would take 20 minutes to expel from a SCSI
         shadow set a member experiencing errors.
    
      o  SHDRIVER loss of synchronization may result in a crash where
         SHADDETINCON is triggered by the check at the end of
         MATCH_MASTER_SCB.  In this consistency check, the
         SHAD$W_DEVSTS_PASSIVE_MV_CNTR is verified to be zero and is not.
         Another symptom is that the virtual unit UCB$W_RWAITCNT is
         zero.  Shadow set member counts of zero may also be seen.
    
      o  Crashes may occur in EXPEL_PACKACK_ANY with connections broken to
         all members and IRP$L_SHD_LOCK_FR5 = 1 (packack retries exhausted).
    
      o  All members of a shadow set become inaccessible at the same time and
         remain inaccessible for a period of time greater than "shadow
         member timeout" (SHADOW_MBR_TMO or SHADOW_SYS_TMO) seconds but
         less than MVTIMEOUT seconds.  All members subsequently become
         accessible within seconds of each other but not at exactly the same
         time.  This results in all but one member being expelled from the
         shadow set.
    
         This often occurs when changing HSJ microcode and all members are
         connected to the same HSJ.  When brought back online, polling will
         cause the devices to be found seconds apart which will result in
         all but one member being expelled.
    
      o  All members of the set must be checked to see if they meet the
         criteria of being MSCP.  The original design did not allow
         for having no index zero member.
    
      o  When the mounting of full copy targets exceeds the SHADOW_MAX_COPY
         threads for a given node, other nodes with the shadow set mounted
         do not pick up the copy work.
    
      o  In a cluster, using $PROCESS_SCAN explicitly or implicitly with the
         DCL 'SHOW USER' command sometimes causes a system crash due to an
         ACCVIO in kernel mode or an IVSSRVRQST bugcheck.
    
      o  When a node with a SCSI bus boots, it resets the SCSI bus.  In a
         multi-host SCSI cluster, this can cause the other node to
         experience I/O failures.  Normally, this results in a brief mount
         verification.  The I/O is retried, succeeds, and there is
         no serious consequence.  However, if the other node is in the
         process of booting and the system disk is a shadow set, the
         system will crash.
    
      o  A PGFIPLHI bugcheck may occur in the SHADOW_SERVER process at
         the REMQUE in K_GET_COPYSHAD_IRP.  On OpenVMS VAX, the PC is
         A0E and the VA is 274.
    
      o  A page setup module which draws a frame and company logo on each
         page of output is used on a queue pointing to an LN03.  This page
         setup module works on OpenVMS Version VAX 5.5-2 and prior versions.
         However, with VAXQMAN8_U2055 (CSCPAT_1165) or OpenVMS VAX Version
         6.1 installed, this page setup module causes the printer to
         continually spew out paper with only the output from the page setup
         module.  This continues until the entry is deleted from the queue.
    
      o  If a multi-programming application uses a non-homogenous access
         pattern to a file which is resident in Virtual I/O cache, there is
         a possibility that the size returned in the I/O status block from a
         READ operation will be truncated.
    
      o  If a clustered application uses of a large number of concurrent
         processes to perform file operations consisting of an OPEN, WRITE,
         and CLOSE sequence repetitively on the same data file, data
         corruption may occur.
    
      o  In a multi-programming environment where a significant amount of
         NEW data from a file is being loaded into the cache concurrently by
         multiple processes, the system may HANG.
    
      o  If a user attempts to mount a disk that is 100% full on OpenVMS VAX
         V6.* and the disk was originally initialized with a version of
         OpenVMS VAX prior to V6.0, paged pool can be corrupted leading to
         system crashes.  If the disk is filled AFTER it has been mounted
         under V6.*, there will not be any problem.
    
      o  The class driver will sometimes attempt to send an MSCP command
         packet on the wrong connection.  This fix detects this mismatch and
         corrects it.
    
      o  Due to invalid allocation counts, processes hang in RWNPG state
         waiting for a request for non-paged pool (NPP) so large that it
         cannot be satisfied.
    
      o  The system crashes with the current process executing a $CHKPRO
         system service call.
    
      o  A $AUDIT_EVENT system crash my occur in SECURITY.EXE due to corrupt
         scan structure storage.
    
      o  When a rights list is passed into $CHKPRO (CHP$_RIGHTS), it is
         copied into the ARB within the NSA$A_SCRATCH area.  This area
         will hold a maximum of eight rights.  The code that handles this
         copy operation will split any larger rights list into the first
         eight, which are copied into the local rights area, and the
         remainder, which a descriptor is created and its address is added
         as extended process rights.
    
         The code involved in copying the first eight rights is looping
         incorrectly and copying rights to random locations within the
         NSA$A_SCRATCH area usually resulting in a SSRVEXCEPT crash.
    
      o  When a value block or value status block cannot be returned,
         SYS$GETLKI returns the error SS$_ILLRSDM.  A correction has been
         made to SYS$GETLKI to now return all other requested information
         and update the wildcard search index.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD04_061 Kit:
    
      o  When booting two or more systems simultaneously from shadowed
         system disks, the systems may appear to hang.  Crashing the
         systems and examining the crash dumps indicates that shadowing
         driver blocking AST routines have not run.
    
      o  When a node runs out of SHADOW_MAX_COPY threads while mounting
         new copy target units, other nodes in the cluster that have
         available SHADOW_MAX_COPY threads will not pick up the copy
         work.  This results in the copy not being started for copy
         members that are added to shadow sets.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD03_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.1:
    
      o  A double-deallocation crash may occur as the result of MOUNT not
         properly initializing the MTL pointer.  This pointer had a stale
         value as a result of 2 calls to SYS$VMOUNT from a single program.
         The problem will not happen as a result of DCL commands, as the
         cells are initialized at image activation.  The stale pointer
         will only cause a problem if the system is unable to allocate
         space for defining the logical name.
    
      o  An OPCOM message was being output even though /NOASSIST was
         specified in the MOUNT command.  This caused problems for UETP.
    
      o  A system crash may occur in SECURITY.EXE.
    
      o  A process is in RWPAG while auditing an event.
    
      o  When the current process executes a $CHKPRO system service call,
         the system will crash.
    
      o  Processes hang in RWNPG state (Call to $CRMPSC) waiting for a
         request for NPP so large that it cannot be satisfied.
    
      o  DISMOUNT/OVERRIDE=CHECKS against the SYSTEM disk is allowed.
         Once this command is issued nothing else can be done.
         Installation of this kit will allow this command to
         only be issued on non-system disks.
    
      o  When booting from a Controller-Based Shadowed System disk
         for the first time as a Host-Based Shadowed System disk, boot
         fails with a SHADBOOTFAIL bugcheck.  A SHADBOOTFAIL may also
         occur if SHADOW_SYS_UNIT is changed at boot time.
    
      o  During a copy operation the system may crash with an ACCVIO.
    
      o  When a user program allocates a read buffer from a TMSCP-served
         tape creator, the record on tape will get server node system data
         returned along with the data on tape.  Printing the buffer will
         show that the data from tape is in the correct location of the
         buffer but it will also show that the area of the buffer that was
         not supposed to be changed contains server node system data.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD02_061 Kit:
    
      o  The local MSCP server issues a fatal MSCPSERV bug check when it
         should not.  The server should instruct the remote DISKCLASS
         driver to BUGCHECK.
    
      o  When a serving node becomes so busy that it occasionally
         exhausts resource limits, the RWAITCNT for heavily used disks
         gets incremented.  If a client node requests an ONLINE and
         RWAITCNT is bumped, it is rejected by MSCP.  This makes
         MOUNTing devices very difficult.
    
      o  On OPCOM restart, the old privilege mask's upper 32-bits  may
         not be restored to their original value.  This mask is
         declared as a longword, but used as a quadword.
    
      o  When OPCOM receives a message that it does not recognize, the
         message is included in the log file with the following text:
    
         %%%%%%  OPCOM  19-APR-1994 11:20:40.06  %%%%%%  DUMP_LOG_FILE
         OPCOM has noticed a condition which might be due to an internal
         error. might also be explained by normal events, especially if
         nodes have just crashed or rebooted in a VAXcluster.  Please
         bring this message to Digital's attention only if you are having
         problems with operator communications.
         Buffer is     8 (%X0008) bytes -- "-  Unknown message received"
         00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 -
         41534403 0015007B
    
      o  When an assisted merge is performed, an inaccurate number of
         LBNs (Logical Block Numbers) and bytes transferred may be
         computed.  Therefore, all LBNs may not be merged in assisted
         merge operations.
    
      o  Access path attention (ACPTH) messages are used by MSCP to
         determine secondary paths for disks that are attached to dual
         controllers.  DUDRIVER might incorrectly assign this
         information to the wrong device if two units with the same
         unit number and allocation class exist.  These messages may
         also trigger unnecessary failover attempts.
    
      o  Servers in VAXclusters with more than 127 nodes may crash
         when the 128th node attempts to access a given disk.  This
         usually occurs after a serving node crashes for other reasons,
         but this causes the rest of the servers to crash.
    
      o  In a small working set, it is possible for the EXE$PSCAN_NEXT_PID
         routine (called by $GETJPI) to take a page fault at IPL 8.  This
         causes a PGFIPLHI bugcheck.  The page referenced is in the
         PROCESS_SCAN context block (PSCANCTX$ data structure) in process
         virtual address space.
    
      o  While running a UETP tape test, fatal controller errors may
         occur.  This problem is caused by TMSCP (the tape server)
         incorrectly interpreting a TUDRIVER status subcode.  This
         misinterpretation is converted to a fatal controller error
         status and returned to the user.
    
      o  Shadow sets have separate mount verification done by SHDRIVER,
         instead of the usual system mount verification.  The SHDRIVER
         mount verification has an error updating the volume label on
         shadow sets that have the volume label changed except on the
         node that issues the label change.  Once the devices are in
         this state, they can not be recovered until MVTIMEOUT is
         reached or a reboot of all affected nodes is performed.
    
         This correction enables the behavior of virtual units to be
         consistent with the behavior of physical units.
    
      o  Unnecessary calls to MOUNT verification or host-based
         volume shadowing processing may occur.  On Alpha nodes,
         these mount verification or Host-Based Volume Shadowing
         processing calls will fail, resulting in I/O hangs and,
         eventually, volume invalid errors.
    
      o  AVAILABLE or OFFLINE status returned from a transfer command
         does not implement the MSCP specification correctly.
    
      o  OpenVMS VAX MSCP Parity with OpenVMS Alpha.  A served disk may
         appear to be ONLINE when it is really OFFLINE.  This occurs
         because the MSCP server's CHECK_SERVICE routine searches the
         device database and incorrectly returns an ONLINE status.
    
      o  There is no synchronization between SHADOW_PROCESSING and
         INVALIDATE_ALL_ENTRIES, which allows these two code threads to
         run simultaneously.  This can cause a system crash due to the
         fact that the SHADOW_PROCESSING thread may remove a member from
         a multimember shadow set and the INVALIDATE_ALL_ENTRIES thread
         is not aware that the member has been removed.  The system
         crash occurs in RESTORE_WLE because no Write Log table
         exists.
    
      o  A problem exists with the SHADOW_SERVER.  The symptoms of this
         problem are:
    
         +  Undiagnosable hangs in individual copy operations or on
            the entire server
    
         +  Unexpected copy aborts
    
         +  Poor copy performance
    
         +  Shadow set inconsistency
    
      o  High interrupt stack activity occurs on a node performing a merged
         copy operation.  This could adversely affect configurations using
         HSJ40 controllers with many shadow sets.
    
      o  Data inconsistency may exist between members of a Phase II shadow
         set.  This occurs under very heavy I/O operations to a shadow
         set while the members of that shadow set are undergoing failover
         from one controller to another.
    
      o  Invalid Command status processing of Write History Management
         commands unconditionally puts an entry into the error log.
         This occurs even when there is not actual error.
    
      o  A second shadow server may accidentally be created using the
         startup command procedure.  This results in desynchronization
         of shadow sets.  The startup procedure has been modified so
         that it does not allow multiple servers.
    
      o  When a serving node becomes so busy that it occasionally
         exhausts resource limits, the RWAITCNT for heavily used disks
         gets incremented.  If a client node requests an ONLINE and
         RWAITCNT is bumped, it is rejected by MSCP.  This makes
         MOUNTing devices very difficult.
    
      o  After a system failure, the number of blocks to be rewritten
         is not computed correctly.  This may cause inconsistent data
         between shadow set members.  This occurs during an assisted
         merge when the information regarding which LBNs to include
         is only requested from one shadow set member.
    
     o   A process issuing I/O to a TMSCP tape device may appear to
         hang after a controller failover attempt.  This is caused by
         an incorrect check of the cached data's lost error status,
         which results in an endless loop trying to recover a
         nonexistent error.
    
      o  In the past, Volume Shadowing checked device IDs and the
         maximum logical block numbers (LBNs.)  Volume Shadowing
         now checks for geometries and maximum LBNs.  This
         enables devices like the RZ28 and RZ28B to operate in
         the same shadow set.  Even though their device IDs differ,
         their geometries and maximum LBNs will match when configured
         on like controllers.
    
         NOTE:  If this remedial kit is installed across a VMScluster
                system, SCSI shadow sets that are configured across
                different controller types are not supported and will
                no longer work.
    
      o  A device may be mounted by an MSCP server, even though a local
         controller could be used.  This situation may still occur after
         the installation of this ECO kit under extreme timing circumstances.
    
      o  When new MSCP server I/O is sent to a device that is RWAITCNT
         stalled and the connection from the driver to the device fails,
         server I/O is posted to the restart queue if it is active.  If
         not, they are incorrectly left on the UCB (Unit Control Block)
         pending queue.  This causes shadow sets to appear to be stalled.
    
         If the connection from the client to the server then fails,
         I/O from the client that has been passed to the driver is
         then allowed to complete.  If this I/O is stalled on the
         pending queue, it completes much later, possibly after
         the client has reissued the stalled I/O.
    
      o  Incorrect MSPC-served disk synchronization might cause I/O to
         an MSCP-served disk to become stalled on an internal queue
         which would be restarted later.
    
      o  I/O hangs to a shadow set might occur because the shadowing
         driver has no way to disable write logging if the write log
         entries are mismanaged or depleted to a point that the
         shadow set is unusable.
    
      o  An Invalid Exception bugcheck might occur in DUDRIVER during
         I/O request complete processing.
    
      o  In the past, MSCP could only serve 256 disks.  It can now
         serve 512.
    
      o  During the processing of a write-log entry in SHDRIVER, a
         register value may be improperly maintained if the system
         is low on nonpaged pool.  This will cause a system crash
         with an INVEXCEPTN Bugcheck within SHSB$GET_WLE_TABLE in
         module SHDSUBS when the entry is resumed.
    
      o  After approximately 18 hours of operation, some OPCOM
         messages that should be logged are skipped.
    
      o  If two members of a three-member shadow set are
         simultaneously removed, either intentionally or in
         a failover situation, the system may hang or fail.
    
      o  System crashes might occur during virtual I/O cache (VIOC)
         expansion under the following circumstances:
    
         +  Multiple processes (or processors) are accessing the same
            file concurrently;
    
         +  The cache space for that file was being expanded;
    
         +  That expansion caused the need for a new hash table
            structure.
    
      o  When subjected to a high I/O load and multiple failures,
         the write logging (minimerge) and shadowing synchronization
         subsystems become unreliable.
    
      o  Unreliable shadow subsystem behavior and shadow-set hangs
         occur when VMScluster nodes fail to relinquish shadow-set
         resources.
    
      o  The TMSCP server bugchecks in TMSCP$FIND_UQB when a command
         that refers to a specific unit is processed and that unit
         does not have the Server Local Unit Number (SLUN) bit set.
    
         The fix contained in this ECO kit will cause the bugcheck
         to occur in TUDRIVER instead of the TMSCP server.
    
      o  I/O may stall to a served shadow-set member.  Load balancing
         makes this condition more likely.
    
      o  System crashes may occur during processing of stale I/O in
         Host-Based Volume Shadow Sets.   This I/O does not properly
         reflect changes in shadow set  configuration, notably removal of
         members and changes in the write-logging state.
    
      o  Shadow set members may be inconsistent after the failure
         of a node accessing a shadow set served by an Alpha node.
         The amount of corrupted data depends on previous I/O
         operations to the shadow set.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSHAD01_061 Kit:
    
      o  In Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS Alpha Version 6.1, several
         changes were made to the assisted merge (minimerge)
         functionality.  These changes disabled mimimerge functionality
         across mixed architecture VMSclusters.   With minimerge
         disabled, shadowing continued to function normally, except that
         a full merge was always done when a merge operation occurred.
         Full merges take considerably longer than minimerges.  If you
         want minimerge functionality, Digital recommends that you
         install this kit across any VMSclusters that contain an Alpha
         node running OpenVMS Alpha Version 6.1.
    
         Mixed-architecture VMSclusters that are running OpenVMS Alpha
         Version 6.1 must apply this kit and reboot the entire cluster
         simultaneously.  In these cases, rolling upgrades are not
         supported.
    
      o  Prior to this remedial kit, if attempts were made to mount an
         RZ28B disk device with an RZ28 in the same shadow set, Volume
         Shadowing detected different device IDs and may not have
         allowed the devices to be mounted.  This behavior applied only
         an RZ28/RZ28B shadow-set combination when connected with a
         local SCSI controller.  Since RZ28 and RZ28B are different
         device types but can be shadowed, the checking for shadow-set
         membership  in  the host-based shadowing software needed to be
         modified.
    
         This remedial kit enables the combination of RZ28 and RZ28B
         devices in a shadow set, as long as they are connected to like
         controllers.  With the use of SCSI devices, like controllers
         are required because geometry can vary from controller to
         controller.   Digital recommends that SCSI  shadow sets be
         configured across like controller types. Existing SDI and DSSI
         configurations are unaffected; if they are not using SCSI
         drives and are shadowing SDI devices across different
         controllers, these configurations will  continue  to work
         without this remedial kit.
    
         VMSclusters with shadowed SCSI disks and mixed-architecture
         VMSclusters running OpenVMS Alpha Version 6.1 must apply the
         kit and reboot the entire cluster simultaneously, so that the
         entire VMScluster is running the same version of Volume
         Shadowing software.  The kit is required for both VAX and Alpha
         nodes.   Do not mount shadow sets containing RZ28 and RZ28B
         devices without first applying this kit.
    
      o  The MME$$MNTREQ function, which requests that a volume should
         be selected for mount, allowed the use of logical names for the
         device name.  However, since these are process logical names,
         as part of the caller's process, these logical names are not
         available to the media manager.
    
      o  A device not ready for magtapes error is not reported until a
         delay of up to 6 minutes has expired.
    
      o  If a user creates a shadow set, dismounts the set, then mounts
         just one of the members, the other members of the set will be
         marked "ONLINE" when viewed from the HSC.  As a result, no HSC
         operations are allowed until the disk is MOUNTed then
         DISMOUNTed from the shadow set.
    
      o  If MOUNT fails to create a logical name, no error information
         is displayed.  In this case, the logical name may point to
         an incorrect device.
    
      o  If a device is MOUNTED/SYSTEM and then it is MOUNTED/CLUSTER
         with conflicting /OWNER_UIC or /PROTECTION qualifiers,
         incorrect error messages may be displayed.  The following two
         types of errors may occur.
    
           +  The error message may generate garbage which would
              force terminal characteristics to be reset to
              ASCII.
    
           +  The following error messages may be displayed:
    
                inconsistent /PROTECTION option.  Cluster mounted (garbage)
                inconsistent /OWNER_UIC option.  Cluster mounted (garbage)
    
      o  When a disk with a large EXTENT value is mounted under
         V6.* for the first time or if the SECURITY.SYS file is
         missing from the system, the SECURITY.SYS file will be
         created as EXTENT size and rounded up for the disk
         cluster size.  This may waste disk space.
    
      o  The message for %MOUNT-F-BADUNDFAT has a typographical error.
    
      o  If the VOLUME_ACCESSIBILITY option is used in conjunction
         with the INITIALIZE/LABEL= command upon tape initialization,
         a user with all privileges enabled is unable to access the
         tape unless he/she is the owner.
    
      o  In an OPCOM message, there is no <CR><LF> separating the
         device name and the comment text.
    
      o  After a BACKUP operation, the header of the INDEXF.SYS file
         of the backup save set is corrupted.  This can be seen by
         issuing the following DCL command:
    
              $ ANALYZE/DISK DJA0:
    
      o  Previously, MOUNT only waited 10 seconds to allow magtape
         devices to become ready before determining that the device is
         off line.  Tx8x7 tape devices may take up to 6 minutes to
         become ready during a volume switch.  This fix causes the wait
         to be done in user mode so that the wait can be aborted by the
         user via a CTRL/C.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXMTAA01_062 Kit:
    
      o  The system crashes with a NOBVPVCB bugcheck.  The crash occurs
         on the kernel stack with MTAAACP.EXE as the current image.
    
      o  The system crashes with an XQPERR while dismounting a MAD
         drive.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXMTAA02_061 Kit:
    
      o  If a tape is initialized with a non-blank accessibility field
         and then mounted using /OVERRIDE=(ACCESSIBILITY), the tape
         mounts but cannot be read or written to.  The command format to
         initialize the tape would be similar to:
    
              INIT/LABEL=VOLUME_ACCESSIBILITY="+" tape: LABEL
    
         In addition, the following OPCOM messages are generated and the
         tape volume is automatically unloaded after an attempt to WRITE
         or READ the tape volume:
    
         %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 12-DEC-1994 12:57:23.53 %%%%%%%%%%%  Message
         from  user  USERXX  on NODEXX non-blank accessibility field in
         volume labels on SYS$DEVICE:
    
         %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 12-DEC-1994 12:57:23.54 %%%%%%%%%%%
    
      o  If a user attempts to stop the MTAAACP process or a process that
         emitted a QIO, MTAAACP will go into RWAST state and hang.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXMTAA01_061 Kit:
    
      o  If the wrong magnetic tape volume is inserted as the next volume,
         MTAAACP cancels the request and then hangs.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXMONT01_061 Kit:
    
      o  Specifying the DISK Class to Monitor can result in unexpected
         side effects to the display.  When the MONITOR DISK command is
         issued on a system with DFS devices mounted, only the first
         three characters of the DFS name are displayed correctly.
         Instead of the fourth character, the low byte of the unit
         number is output.  It is often displayed as an non-printable
         character or as an escape sequence (in which case, it may cause
         terminal lock-ups, resetting characteristics, etc).
    
         The following command illustrates this problem when executed
         on a system with DFS disks mounted:
    
              $MONITOR DISK
    
                                  DISK I/O STATISTICS
    
                                   on node NODENAME
                                  7-APR-1994 16:25:17
    
              I/O Operation Rate
    
              DSA2241:         FOLKLORE            6.27    6.27    6.27    6.27
              DSA2249:         AUDIT               0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              DSA2263:         VMS19NOVC3L         0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              DSA2264:         LAV19NOVC3L         0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              DSA2265:         MDF19NOVC3L        15.84    15.84   15.84   15.84
              DSA2266:         VMS28APRB3E         0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              DSA2267:         LAV28APRB3E         0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              DSA2268:         MDF28APRB3E         0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              DSA2269:         VMS18JANC3L         0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              DSA2270:         MDF18JANC3L         0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              DSA2271:         LAV18JANC3L         0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              DSA2280:         VMS12OCTM3C         0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              $254$DFSé1001()  DEC:..._STAR        0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              $254$DFSH8008()  V501_RESD           0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
              $254$DFSI8009()  V51_RESD            0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00
    
      o  The 'MONITOR DISK' command hangs when monitoring a system with
         more than 800 disks.  MONITOR contains an arbitrary upper limit
         of 800 on the number of disks it can monitor.  When a system
         contains more than 800, MONITOR generates an error status, but
         the status is not properly signaled, and the display appears to
         hang.  This can also be seen with a 'MONITOR CLUSTER' command
         (which collects DISK data implicitly).
    
      o  Due to an inadequate synchronization mechanism, the MONITOR
         DISK or MONITOR CLUSTER command can go into an infinite loop
         on multi-processor machines.
    
      o  MONITOR PROCESS in a local environment will fail if the
         SYSGEN parameter MAXPROCESSCNT is set to allow more than 1040
         processes.  When Virtual Balance Slots were added in OpenVMS
         V6.0, this number dropped to 978.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSYS14_061 kit:
    
      o  There is a race condition possible when a CFCB (Cache File
         Control Block) is being deleted due to XQP action and cache
         space is being reclaimed from a LIMBO file.
    
      o  Disk corruption can occur when heavy open/read/write/close/delete
         operations are occurring.
    
      o  At some point after a node CLUEXITs, 2 or more cluster nodes
         crash with LOCKMGRERR Bugchecks.
    
      o  When two or more VAX or Alpha nodes are booting at the same
         time, one or both of them will crash.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSYS13_061 Kit:
    
      o  The Virtual Balance Slot Switching (VBSS) software, introduced in
         OpenVMS VAX V6.0, allows processes to time-share the use of what
         may be a limited number of real balance slots.  In order to
         achieve this, there is now a set of virtual balance slots in
         addition to the real slots.  As usual, the BALSETCNT SYSGEN
         parameter defines the number of real balance slots.  Now, with
         VBSS, additional virtual balance slots are created so that the
         total number of real and virtual slots can accommodate all
         processes.  When a resident (non-swapped) process is not
         occupying a real slot, it resides in a virtual slot.  To achieve
         fairness, processes are switched back and forth between the real
         set and the virtual set.
    
         The problem arises because not enough virtual slots were being
         created.  When an allocation is attempted, in order to switch a
         process from a real slot to a virtual slot, the allocation fails,
         causing a VBSSERR bugcheck.  VBSS was creating a total of
         MAXPROCESSCNT slots, with BALSETCNT being real slots and the
         remainder being virtual slots.  However, this is not enough; when
         all slots are filled (i.e., MAXPROCESSCNT processes are created),
         processes must share the use of the limited number of real slots.
         A switch of one process out of the real set and a corresponding
         switch of a process occupying a virtual slot into the vacated
         real slot, requires an *additional* slot (beyond MAXPROCESSCNT)
         in order to execute the swap.  Think of the extra slot as being a
         temporary holding area, required only during the time that the
         swap is taking place.  Furthermore, on an SMP system, such a swap
         can be happening simultaneously on each processor.  Therefore, an
         additional slot is needed for *each* processor.  The solution
         chosen for this problem is to pre-allocate an additional slot for
         each potential SMP processor.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSYS12_061 Kit:
    
      o  When a value block or value status block cannot be returned,
         SYS$GETLKI returns the error SS$_ILLRSDM.  A correction has
         been made to SYS$GETLKI so that it now returns all other
         requested information and updates the wildcard search index.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSYS07_061 Kit:
    
      o  If a multi-programming application uses a non-homogenous
         access pattern to a file which is resident in Virtual I/O
         cache, there is a possibility that the size returned in the I/O
         status block from a READ operation will be truncated.
    
         If a clustered application consisting of a large number of
         concurrent processes which perform file operations consisting
         of an OPEN, WRITE, CLOSE sequence on the same data file
         repetitively, a possibility of data corruption exists.
    
         In a multi-programming environment, where a significant amount
         of NEW data from a file is being loaded into the cache
         concurrently by multiple processes, the possibility of a HANG
         exists.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXSYS01_061 Kit:
    
      o  SYS$CHKPRO had several problems that did not manifest themselves
         in a readily visible effect to the end user.  The problems
         include:
    
           -  accepting up to 11 rights lists even though no more than two
              would actually be processed.
    
           -  CHKPRO would accept a CHP$_UIC and write it over a location
              which was to contain a rightslist pointer.
    
           -  In most cases the wrong UIC was used in access checking.
    
         The only time the customer would notice a problem is if they
         specifically tested access to an object known to be protected
         from current rights and UIC settings.
    
      o  Nonpaged dynamic memory (NPAGEDYN) expansion occurs even when
         there is a large amount of free space available.  This can lead
         to performance problems as pool expansion causes free memory to
         be diverted away from that available to processes and dedicated
         to nonpaged pool usage.  For example, with a SHOW MEMORY/POOL
         command you can observe that the "Total" amount of "Nonpaged
         Dynamic Memory" increases when the amount of "Free" bytes is
         quite large:
    
              Dynamic Mem Usage (bytes): Total     Free      In Use    Largest
              Nonpaged Dynamic Mem       38555136  17372224  21182912    38720
              Paged Dynamic Mem          17282048   8295888   8986160  8265232
    
         Starting with the introduction of the Adaptive Pool Management
         (APM) feature, in OpenVMS VAX V6.0, these figures include the
         contributions of both the lookaside lists and the variable pool.
         So, a large "Free" figure is indicative of large (and possibly,
         growing) lookaside lists.  If the "Total" figure is increasing,
         it indicates that pool expansion is occurring, and that the
         lookaside list space is not being used effectively.
    
         The above symptom can result from either of the two following
         separate problems:
    
           -  A routine in the software which supports security features
              such as "rightslists" was obtaining a nonpaged pool block
              and then freeing it in two smaller pieces.
    
           -  An internal loop counter governing the number of times a
              lookaside list allocation was attempted, was set too low.
              This problem will most likely be seen on the VAX 6000 - 500
              and 600.
    
         A third software change associated with APM will also be
         available in a future OpenVMS VAX version, but is not available
         as a remedial change.  The third change provides a potential
         performance benefit under very specialized conditions, such as
         during VMScluster state transitions.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXMME01_061 Kit:
    
      o  The MME$$MNTREQ function which requests that a volume should
         be selected for MOUNT, allows the use of logical names for
         the device name.  However, since these are process logical
         names, as part of the callers process, these logical names are
         not available to the media manager.
    
      o  MME applications are no longer able to set mount and device
         context.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXOPCO01_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.1:
    
      o  When a node leaves a VAXcluster, OPCOM goes into a tight
         loop on one of the remaining nodes in the cluster.  OPCOM
         can be seen using 90-95% of the CPU.
    
    
    Problems Addressed in the VAXAUDI02_061 Kit for OpenVMS VAX V6.1:
    
      o  The Audit Server EXCLUDE process list may become corrupt after
         the DCL 'SET AUDIT/EXCLUDE=pid' command is issued.
    
    
    RELATED ARTICLES:
    
    Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
    the STORAGE and OPENVMS databases.  To view these articles, open the
    appropriate product database and perform a query using either
    of the following search strings 'VAXSHAD09_061' or 'VAXSHAD'.
    
    
    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:
    
    This kit *MUST* be installed on every VAX in a mixed-architecture
    VMScluster, and the Alpha (ALPSHAD) version of this kit *MUST* be
    installed on every Alpha system in the cluster BEFORE any systems
    are re-booted into the VMScluster.  If the correct kit is not
    installed on each system, shadow sets cannot be created.  System
    crashes may also occur if the kits are not installed on all
    appropriate cluster nodes.
    
    The following restrictions will apply upon completion of the
    installation:
    
      o  VMSclusters with shadowed SCSI disks and mixed-architecture
         VMSclusters running OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 must apply the kit and
         reboot the entire cluster simultaneously.  In these cases,
         rolling upgrades are not supported.
    
      o  Working configurations that contain SCSI shadow sets on
         dissimilar controllers may no longer work.
      
      ==========================================================================
      |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
      | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | AUDIT_SERVER.EXE           |%XF9684C16| X-8             | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 01:51:01.39  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | DISMNTSHR.EXE              |%X5FB11623| X-2             | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 01:14:35.73  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | DSDRIVER.EXE               |%XE3139F3A| X-57A2A4A3      | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:01:44.79  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | DUDRIVER.EXE               |%X30A6CADE| X-57A2A4A3      | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:02:22.16  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | EXCEPTION.EXE              |%X241FC77A| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:17:40.56  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | EXEC_INIT.EXE              |%XE7284672| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:15:20.86  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | IMAGE_MANAGEMENT.EXE       |%X83354EBF| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:08:22.49  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | IO_ROUTINES.EXE            |%X4B0FB5AD| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:15:51.05  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | LOCKING.EXE                |%XB804C7E7| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:16:39.41  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | MMESHR.EXE                 |%X7A07DB86| X-6A1           | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 01:12:30.02  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | MONITOR.EXE                |%X73E2F728| X-6             | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:03:08.17  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | MOUNTSHR.EXE               |%XAD6F3418| X-1             | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 01:15:12.94  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | MSCP.EXE                   |%XBCE25DB1| X-55A1          | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:02:41.40  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | MTAAACP.EXE                |%X60B79763| X-7             | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:04:29.01  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | OPCOM.EXE                  |%XEEF70196| X-6A1A1         | 31-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 17:52:43.22  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | PAGE_MANAGEMENT.EXE        |%X23A593D9| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:11:18.43  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | PROCESS_MANAGEMENT.EXE     |%XF05B2DB0| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:06:01.33  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SECURITY.EXE               |%X3454DF6E| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:17:00.55  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SHADOW_SERVER.EXE          |%X7EA2DFF4| X-19A1          | 13-NOV-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 17:03:39.63  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SHDRIVER.EXE               |%XDE2ED244| X-112A2         | 13-NOV-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 17:03:30.89  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SPISHR.EXE                 |%X49AC58F2| X-8             | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:02:20.76  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYS$CLUSTER.EXE            |%XC50B94E2| X-6             | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:05:53.75  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYSINIT.EXE                |%X5475A136| X-21            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:10:02.62  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYSMGTMSG.EXE              |%X0ACD0EE7| X-3             | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:19:59.21  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYSMSG.EXE                 |%XA74F135E| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:18:08.13  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYSTEM_PRIMITIVES.EXE      |%X85EF6CCA| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:12:59.46  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | SYSTEM_PRIMITIVES_MIN.EXE  |%X37585B7A| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:14:11.77  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | TMSCP.EXE                  |%X5A6135FE| X-22A2          | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:03:07.68  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | TUDRIVER.EXE               |%X8BB2E1F6| X-47            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:03:18.41  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | VAXCLUSTER_CACHE.EXE       |%XFD3CC2E5| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:19:18.58  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | VBSS.EXE                   |%X153AD824| X-24            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:19:45.45  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | VMOUNT.EXE                 |%X46C2B522| X-15            | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:02:22.03  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | VMS$REMEDIAL_ID.EXE        |%X6F2972C5| V1.0            |  2-AUG-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 14:56:19.13  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | VPM.EXE                    |%X1706E4AE| X-0003          | 27-JUL-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 02:03:59.52  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
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