Software distributer .... error

[Colin Taberman]

Hi,
I have some strange output from SD commands. The server is running 10.20, patch-level june 99. The server has been ignited from a similar server, including the patches. The error message is as follows:
The following is the output from one SD command. The output from the command comes out after this error-message:

executed by /usr/sbin/cleanup on Fri Sep 22 10:59:08 EET 2000 :

2000-09-22-08:58:51.851+00:00I----- PID#19664 ERROR dms general dms2nums.c 647 0
x7af7be00
FAILURE: Cannot init measurement
2000-09-22-08:58:51.854+00:00I----- PID#19664 ERROR dms general dmsobsv.c 1020 0
x7af7be00
FAILURE: dms_ndi_register_process() failed

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Any ideas what had happend

[Alex Glennie]

I've seen info suggestions that say you should make sure MeasureWare is NOT running and that DMS_FORCEOFF=1.

This error can occur even if you are not running DCE.

Chances are that dced or rpcd is not able to initialise DMS (DCE Measurement
Services).

The errors are occurring because some component of the DCE MeasurementService
(DMS) is missing.

NB Swinstall has close connections with both dce and rpcd !

Update the files /etc/rc.config.d/dce and /etc/rc.config.d/ncs to add the
following line at the end of the file to turn off DMS:

Export DMS_FORCEOFF=1

And kill and restart rpcd (/sbin/init.d/ncs stop & start) or dced
(/sbin/init.d/dce stop & start ).

DMS_FORCEOFF *Note The variable needs to be set for both the 'rpcd' daemon
process (/etc/rc.config.d/ncs) and all system wide user profiles (/etc/profile)

If you are not running DCE the System should be rebooted after the above
procedure has been performed.

If running DCE

Additionally he said that sometimes a clear-up of the DCE database can be
helpful. This has to be done by:

- stop rpcd process

- cd /var/opt/dce/dced

- delete all files

- export DMS_FORCEOFF=1

- restart rpcd

Please reboot your system to ensure that all the rpc daemons, and others, are
started while knowing about this change.

[Rick Garland]

If you have measureware running, stop it before the task.

/sbin/init.d/mwa stop