topic Re: Error message on console... in Operating System - OpenVMS

Error message on console...

Peter Clarke — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:49:47 GMT

I have an error message on the console that i have not seen before:

subprocess or pipe subprocess login failure

PID : xxxxxx
Process Name : xxxxxx
Username : xxxxxx
etc.....

Process owner : xxxxxx
Image name : $1$dka0:[sys0.syscommon.sysexe loginout.exe

Status: LOGIN-F-CLIFAIL, Error activating command interpreter.

Any ideas??

Peter

Re: Error message on console...

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:29:02 GMT

help/mes Error activating command interpreter

set def sys$system
mc authorize show xxxxxx (the owner)
check the field CLI : must contain DCL

or

some procedure/program tried to start a process with an invalid cli (check spawn/cli).

Re: Error message on console...

Antoniov. — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 05:16:13 GMT

Hi Peter,
typically this happens when a detached process try to spawn a system command, for example COPY.
You known what proces is and who ran this program.

Antonio Vigliotti

Re: Error message on console...

Peter Clarke — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 05:34:34 GMT

Also now getting the error:

LOGIN-F-CLISYMTBL,error creating space for command interpreter.

Is the system parameter CLISYMTBL set too low currently it is set at 1024.What should i set this to??

Regards

Peter

Re: Error message on console...

Mac Lilley — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 05:43:43 GMT

Hello Peter

1024 is the max value for clisymtbl. Do you define a lot of symbols? If so can you reduce the number defined and see if this helps?

hth

ML

Re: Error message on console...

Uwe Zessin — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 05:54:45 GMT

No, "CLISYMTBL" is the identification part of the error message - it is just a coincidence that a system parameter by that name exists.
Try '$ HELP/MESSAGE CLISYMTBL'.

Honestly, I would take a very thorough look at this username's setup in the SYSUAF.

Re: Error message on console...

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 06:35:04 GMT

Also check :
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=0EL9MVPHA0018J%40mailman.otis.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D100%26hl%3Dnl%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3D%2522Error%2Bactivating%2Bcommand%2Binterpreter%2522%2B%2522creating%2Bspace%2522

Wim

Re: Error message on console...

Mac Lilley — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 07:50:08 GMT

Uwe

Of course you are correct. Too much typing and not enough thinking from me!

ML

Re: Error message on console...

Peter Clarke — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 07:55:52 GMT

The only thing that has changed in the uaf records is the wsquo and wsdef values but i have since put these back to how they were originally.

Peter

Re: Error message on console...

Juerg Eichenberger — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:31:16 GMT

Loginout uses SYS$LIBRARY:DCLTABLES.EXE (which is the CLI). If you modify this file (egs. by installing software)you may have created a new version of DCLTABLES.EXE.

Do a DIR SYS$LIBRARY:DCLTABLES.EXE

and a $ INSTALL LIST SYS$LIBRARY:DCLTABLES.EXE

Are the file version numbers identical?
If not, do a

$INSTALL REPLACE SYS$LIBRARY:DCLTABLES.EXE

Regards
Juerg

Re: Error message on console...

Peter Clarke — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:48:17 GMT

No the version's on both of these are the same...