[HECnet] Satellite configuration/NCP crash

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Unless youLre running an NI cluster. If PEDRIVER is loaded shutting the decnet circuit used by it must crash the node. 
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Van: Peter Coghlan
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Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Satellite configuration/NCP crash
Verzonden: 15 september 2011 21:30


I'm following the procedure in the Cluster manual, pp10-9, to configure a 
VAX satellite from an alpha boot node, and I'm getting a system crash.

My question is whether I need to run this procedure with the Alpha in 
standalone mode, or whether this is a situation requiring a patch, or 
whether I can get away with something different.


NCP commands should work fine when the system is running in normal
multiuser mode. The worst that should happen from entering something
incorrect is an error message or cutting yourself off if you happen
to be logged on via decnet. If a system crash results from doing
something in NCP, there is a software error and it is time to go
looking for patches or upgrading to a newer version or downgrading
to a stable version.

Regards,
Peter Coghlan.