Distributed NetBeans 5.0 FT2 server fails to start in I64

[Barney Kwok]

I have installed Java 1.5 and NetBeans 5.0 Field Test 2 in I64 running OpenVMS 8.3. When I run IDE$STARTUP.COM from system account, the IDE server process does not start. There is no file created in IDE$LOGS directory. Here are the messages from IDE$STARTUP.COM:

archer_system$ @sys$startup:ide$startup.com
Defining TZ as EST5EDT
JDK_VERSION = "150"
P1 = "FAST"
Checking sys$manager:java$150_setup.com...
Calling Java setup procedure SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]JAVA$150_SETUP.COM;1 HOTSPOT JOB
%INSTALL-W-NOPREV, no previous entry exists - new entry created for ARCHER$DKA0:
[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][IDE$SERVER.SYSLIB]IDE$VMS_AUTH_MOD.EXE;1
Starting the IDE Server process...
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 000032AE
archer_system$

Process 32AE does not exist in the system. It seems to me that IDE$IDESTARTUP.COM is not able to create the detach process for IDE$SERVER user. IDE$SERVER user is created by the product installation. According to AUTHOIRZE, the default login directory is [USER]. There is no [USER] directory in my machine.

Any idea/suggestion ?

Many thanks in advance.

Barney Kwok

[labadie_1]

Whats says the accounting ?

$ acc/fu/id=000032AE
or
$ acc/fu/id=000032AE accountng
if you use the logical name accountng fro the accounting.

I suppose that
$ sh acc
shows that accounting is enabled.

If not, enable it
$ set acc/enable/new

and start again ide$idestartup.

[Barney Kwok]

I reset the account file and the accounting info shows ACP file creation error. I have tried to set IDE$SERVER directory to W:RWED but the problem remains.

DETACHED Process Termination
----------------------------
Username: SYSTEM UIC: [IDE$SERVER]
Account: SYSTEM Finish time: 7-JUN-2007 15:53:49.04
Process ID: 00003306 Start time: 7-JUN-2007 15:53:48.99
Owner ID: Elapsed time: 0 00:00:00.05
Terminal name: Processor time: 0 00:00:00.01
Remote node addr: Priority: 4
Remote node name: Privilege <31-00>: 00108808
Remote ID: Privilege <63-32>: 00000000
Remote full name:
Posix UID: -2 Posix GID: -2 (%XFFFFFFFE)
Queue entry: Final status code: 0001C00A
Queue name:
Job name:
Final status text: %RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
Page faults: 99 Direct IO: 5
Page fault reads: 5 Buffered IO: 12
Peak working set: 1840 Volumes mounted: 0
Peak page file: 176944 Images executed: 2

[Meg Watson]

Hi Barney,

Usually when the IDE Server will not start it is due to a quota problem. (Usually JTQuota, but there can be other problems as well)

Please look in sys$common:[ide$server.logs] and see if there are any log files there.

Thanks!
Meg Watson
Distributed NetBeans Engineering

[Barney Kwok]

There is no file created in IDE$LOGS (SYS$COMMON:[IDE$SERVER.LOG]) directory.
The error message from ACCOUNT utility indicates ACP file creation error. So I guess the problem is probably not VMS process quota related.

[John Gillings]

Barney,

> ACP file creation error

Try using auditing to catch the name of the file it's trying to create.

The big hammer approach is:

$ SET AUDIT/ALARM/ENABLE=CREATE

(but be prepared for lots of output)

[Meg Watson]

That's a good idea John.

One question Barney....are you attempting to run the sys$startup:ide$startup command procedure from an account other than the SYSTEM account?

On this end, I will check the PCSI procedure to see how/why the IDESERVER account has a default dir of [USER], that sounds like a bug.

If you change the IDESERVER account default dir does it then start correctly?

[Karl Rohwedder]

On Alpha the dev:[dir] is also just a copy from the DEFAULT account. The PCSI description does not specify a directory.

regards Kalle

[Meg Watson]

I haven't researched this thoroughly yet, but at first glance it appears that when a default directory is not specified during the PCSI ACCOUNT command, [USER] is chosen. I will change the PCSI description file to specify a valid device and directory.

Interestingly, there is no [USER] directory on my I64 machine either, but the IDE Server starts without incident.

[Meg Watson · Accepted solution]

Hi Barney,

I can't recommend adding BYPASS priv to the IDE$SERVER account. The IDE$SERVER process that is started by the IDE$STARTUP command procedure is a daemon that employs a user written system service to check the authorization information provided by the remote user. The user-written system service is installed with the required privs, but the rest of the IDE$SERVER process is purposefully lacking in privs in order to adhere to the vms security policy.

I would suggest you change the privs back to what they were before and instead change the device and directory for the IDE$SERVER account to IDE$ROOT: for the device, and [IDE$SERVER.LOGS] for the directory.

I have changed the PCSI description file to create the IDE$SERVER account with the above default directory.

Thanks for reporting this problem.

Best Regards,
Meg