Error activating MONITOR

[Mark Schafer_2]

I am running 8.2 on a DS10L in a cluster, but the system has its own system disk. Recently I discovered the following. Is this a symptom of a bad upgrade? How do I fix?

$ monitor system
%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image MONITOR
-CLI-E-IMAGEFNF, image file not found $2$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]MONITOR_TV.EXE;

[Hein van den Heuvel]

[repost! My first reply post was messed up, probably due to some line drawing characters]

It's something with the logical names / directories.

I happened to be on the very same box Mark was at (how odd was that!), and noticed the same problem.
The workaround was $DEFINE MONITOR SYS$SYSTEM:MONITOR.EXE

So clearly the wrong image was being activated. Now as to why...

Hein.

btw...

Mark is with HP, I encourage him and other HP engineers to use the internal VMSnotes conference for these kind of questions, just like they have been doing for 20_ years now!

For grins:

Notes>
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Mark Stiles is still there, VAXWRK is still a live node (but no longer homes VMSnotes), and VMSnotes is still there and now at note 8500 in volume 13.

Regards,
Hein.

[Volker Halle · Accepted solution]

Mark,

MONITOR has been re-written as a native image (MONITOR.EXE) for V8.2 - still was a translated (VESTed) image before.

Your problem may be in the definition of the MONITOR command in your DCLTABLES, as it seems to still refer to MONITOR_TV.EXE. Maybe something went wrong when updating the MONITOR command in DCLTABLES ?

Or there is some logical name MONITOR pointing to the old MONITOR_TV.EXE ?

Volker.

[Mark Schafer_2]

Bingo. Sometime during the life of this system I defined MONITOR to point to the translated image in SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM

Thanks!