Misleading CREATE-I-EXISTS Error

[Robert Atkinson]

What do you think to this error? :-

GAMMA_ROB$$$ INIT/OWNER=SYSTEM/NOHIGH $1$DGA131 SEEVIEW
GAMMA_ROB$$$ CRE/DIR $1$DGA131:[SEEVIEW]/LOG
%CREATE-I-EXISTS, $1$DGA131:[SEEVIEW] already exists
GAMMA_ROB$$$ DIR $1$DGA131:[000000]
%DIRECT-E-OPENIN, error opening $1$DGA131:[000000]*.*;* as input
-RMS-E-DNR, device not ready, not mounted, or unavailable

[John Abbott_2]

Hi Robert, Can't see the $ MOUNT command, which I assume explains the -E-OPENIN error. As for the CRE/DIR, do you have any symbols or logicals set which may have accidentally changed the behavior?

Kind Regards
John.

[Robert Atkinson]

No, appears to be any device that exists but isn't mounted :-

ALPHA_RAA$$$ sh dev dga229

Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt
Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt
$1$DGA229: (ALPHA) Online 9
ALPHA_RAA$$$ cre/dir $1$dga229:[robs]
%CREATE-I-EXISTS, $1$DGA229:[ROBS] already exists
ALPHA_RAA$$$

[Hoff]

Looks bogus. How ancient is the software here? Upgrade to current VMS and patch to current and try again.

From OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 with UPDATE V12.0, and an unmounted disk:

$ cre/dir $1$DKJ100:[scratch]
%CREATE-E-DIRNOTCRE, $1$DKJ100:[SCRATCH] directory file not created
-RMS-E-DNR, device not ready, not mounted, or unavailable
$

Follow the output of a "SET WATCH /CLASS=ALL FILE" sequence to trace the command activity. "SET WATCH /CLASS=NONE FILE" to disable. CMEXEC or CMKRNL is needed.

[Robert Atkinson]

Same output from VMS 8.3-1H1 Update v7 (Jan 2010), so I'll check the release notes to see if I can find where it got fixed.

Cheers Hoff.

Rob.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

It reproduces on 'eisner' which is AV8.3 UPDATE V5.0

It reproduces also with a call to LIB$CREATE_DIR.

Any fix/release note would likely only talk about LIBRTL / LIB$CREATE_DIR

In there it was likely a problem introduced with SYMLINKS work.

fwiw,

Hein

[Volker Halle]

Rob,

FWIW, it works correctly on OpenVMS Alpha E8.4:

PersAlpha E8.4 $ crea/dir CHAALP$DKA0:
%CREATE-E-DIRNOTCRE, CHAALP$DKA0: directory file not created
-RMS-E-DNR, device not ready, not mounted, or unavailable

Volker.

[Robert Atkinson]

As this is relatively cosmetic, and clearly fixed in newer versions, there's no reason to use any more time up on it. I simply wasn't sure whether it was worth reporting to HP and as it's fixed, obviously not.

Thanks for everyone's comments.

Rob.