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

[Supratim Sanyal]

On 11/10/21 9:01 AM, Paul Koning wrote:

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

FAL says "27-Oct-34", show date looks correct (assuming not 1921).


Event type 33.0, Remote file access
Occurred 27-Oct-34 14:11:53.7 on node 31.28 (RST101)
Access: Local
Function: OPEN/Read
Remote node = 0 (RST101)
Remote process = 0 1 2 NFT002
Local process = 17 50 1 FAL006
User = 50,1
File accessed = 1 SY:[50,1]INFO.TXT

$
$
$
$ show date
   10-Nov-21 02:12 PM


> 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]*On 
>>> Behalf Of*Tony Nicholson
>>> *Sent:*10 November 2021 08:46
>>> *To:*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> 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>
>> --
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