[HECnet] RSTS/E started emitting "?EVTLOG (BLDNIC) -- %Integer error" messages

[Paul Koning]

Curious.  And you're running those with the actual time, not a date in the past?

I wonder if the copy of DECnet I have is from before some patches that fix some of these issues.

	paul

> On Nov 10, 2021, at 6:47 AM, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> On 11/10/21 5:14 AM, Keith Halewood wrote:
> 
>> I’m running RSTS/E 10.1-L out of the box so to speak. I’m not seeing any error messages.
> No such errors on 31.28 (RST101) either.
> 
> /s.
> 
>>  
>> Keith
>>  
>> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE>] On Behalf Of Tony Nicholson
>> Sent: 10 November 2021 08:46
>> To: hecnet at update.uu.se <mailto:hecnet at update.uu.se>
>> Subject: Re: [HECnet] RSTS/E started emitting "?EVTLOG (BLDNIC) -- %Integer error" messages
>>  
>> Paul Koning is working on a fix.
>>  
>> The RSTS/E DECnet event logger has an integer overflow too.  He said in a e-mail to me -
>>  
>> “ I think I found the problem, yes it's a signed overflow.  The "julian halfdays" used in the event log timestamp overflows on 10-Nov-2021.  I fixed an unsigned issue in the INPUT to the function that converts RSTS date to julian halfday, but I didn't notice the unsigned issue in the formula for the output.”
>>  
>> Tony
>>  
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 19:14, Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout at gmail.com <mailto:wboerhout at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> I am receiving the same messages on the console since today. I am running the “latest” DECnet images that I picked up in July 2020.
>> -- 
>> Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org <mailto:tony.nicholson at computer.org>>
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