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From: RadleyRobot <RadleyRobot@jpr.com>
Subject: SCO Technical Articles released on 20010317
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:35:27 GMT
The following problems are addressed in Technical Articles that appeared
on SCO's web site in the week ending 20010317.
Each problem is preceded by the URL reference to get the relevant article
from the WAIS database at caldera.com.
http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?101557
created 15 Apr 1994
revised 16 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: My 3Com 3C589-Combo PCMCIA network adapter fails stack startup.
The card is recognized at boot time and works correctly with
the DOS diagnostics.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?104819
created 30 Aug 1995
revised 14 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: FOR SCO OPENSERVER 5.0.0:
I have upgraded my system from SCO XENIX/UNIX to SCO OpenServer
Enterprise Release 5.0.0, and when I log in to the system
on /dev/tty01 I get the error:
LOGIN: Upgrade license missing
Overriding system login limit on tty01 only
to allow emergency system administration.
Login attempts on other ttys fail with this message:
LOGIN: Upgrade license missing
FOR SCO OPENSERVER 5.0.5:
I have purchased an upgrade to SCO OpenServer Enterprise 5.0.5.
I have installed SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 using a license I obtained
for a pre-5.0.5 OpenServer Release. After installing, when
I log in to the system from a character screen I get the warning:
LOGIN: Upgrade license missing
but logins are allowed anyway. However, login attempts from
scologin(XC) and the X Desktop are prohibited.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?109310
created 28 Apr 1998
revised 14 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I have an SCO OpenServer system that is experiencing
one of the two following problems:
1. The system panics but does not save a valid dump, either due to
insufficient swap/dump space or some other source corruption.
2. The system hangs and does not provide any information on the
cause of the hang.
NOTE: If the system is producing a valid dump, you won't need to
follow the instructions below; instead see TA105619, "Panic/Crash
Analysis if a dump is available".
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?109640
created 09 Sep 1998
revised 15 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: After specifying a SCSI CD-ROM as the media device for installing
SCO OpenServer, the installation halts with the following messages:
Checking system state and loading installation files.
Please Wait...
Reading from Install Source: 10 KBWARNING: DTFS:
dtnoderead:
inode 141 unknown type on dev ram (31/42)
System error 5:
while exec'ing:
/commonFS/commonUtils/commonUtils
/commonFS/commonUtils/commonUtils exited with status 2
Press to continue
Or, the installation may fail further on, with these messages:
Please Wait while additional files are extracted
from media source.
Extracting files...
Reading from Install Source:
10KB/ramFS/extractProd/extractAll
terminated by signal 8
Press to continue
SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 installs on the same system without a problem.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110654
created 30 Nov 1999
revised 14 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: What issues are resolved by Support Level Supplement (SLS) ptf7601h,
the UnixWare 7.1.1 inet and socksys Driver Supplement?
Some versions of SLS ptf7601 cause various tcp panics.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?111586
created 09 Nov 2000
revised 15 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I want to configure my UnixWare 7 server to accept more than
xxxx telnet(1tcp) connections. What parameters do I need to
tune to do this?
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112421
created 06 Feb 2001
revised 17 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I just received a notice saying my UnixWare 7.x.x Mail Server is
an open relay and has been listed in the ORBS database at:
http://www.orbs.org
ORBS (the Open Relay Behavior-modification System) is a
database for tracking SMTP servers that have been confirmed
to permit third-party relay. If I run the Relay test available
at http://www.abuse.net/relay.html (requires registration) my
server fails on "Relay Test 8".
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112522
created 13 Feb 2001
revised 17 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: A NonStop Clusters 7.1.1b cluster was installed and registered
correctly using UnixWare 7, NSC and Disk Mirroring licenses
which all required callback registration. SCOadmin License
Manager reports that all licenses are registered, but during
user logins the following message is displayed:
NOTICE: Unregistered SCO software is installed on your system.
Please refer to SCO's online help for registration information
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112601
created 20 Feb 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I want to keep a record of the file transfers conducted over
ftp to my server and be able to determine when a file transfer
is in progress.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112602
created 20 Feb 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: When I originally create a user, mail works fine. I then delete
the user and the associated mailbox. I re-create the user and
manually add the mailbox with proper permissions and user/group
ownership. Now the user can no longer receive mail, all mail
gets bounced back.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112621
created 21 Feb 2001
revised 17 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I want to configure virtual domains on my UnixWare system and
allow the "virtual" users to retrieve their mail using POP or
IMAP.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112622
created 21 Feb 2001
revised 17 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: The data fields in sar(1M) output is sometimes doubled. For
instance, in the following example you see disparate values at
the 12:17:41 increment.
$ sar -r 1 10
UnixWare ih215 5 7.1.1 i386 02/06/01
12:17:31 freemem freeswap freekv filemem
12:17:32 1167327 2766314 145838 715485
12:17:33 1167101 2766214 145838 715460
12:17:34 1167079 2766172 145838 715458
12:17:35 1166963 2765610 145832 715382
12:17:36 1167007 2765931 145812 715447
12:17:37 1166796 2765800 145811 715376
12:17:38 1166718 2767301 145825 715424
12:17:39 1167954 2767308 145823 715433
12:17:41 2335798 5534594 291650 1430764
12:17:42 1167941 2767274 145807 715436
Average 1284068 3043251 160407 786966
This problem has also been seen in cases where the time increment
does not skip as shown in the above example.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112661
created 22 Feb 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: When installing UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.1 using the CD-ROM from
either the September or December UnixWare 7.1.1 Media kits, the
installation fails with this error:
Error: unable to find root hard disk
Power the system down, then check all physical hardware
connections and BIOS settings. Restart the installation
and be sure to load applicable hardware drivers.
The system has a hard disk connected to an Adaptec HBA that is
supported by the adsb HBA driver.
NOTE: The UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.1 September Media Kit has a model
number of CB400-UW74-7.1.1 and the Release 7.1.1 Installation CD-ROM
Disk 1 of 3 has a part number of 400-911-801/400-920-205 09/00.
The UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.1 December Media Kit has a model number
of CC400-UW74-7.1.1 and the Release 7.1.1 Installation CD-ROM Disk
1 of 3 has a part number of 400-911-802/400-920-206 12/00.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112723
created 26 Feb 2001
revised 12 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I have identified a disk buffering bottleneck using sar.
How do I increase disk buffering for SCO OpenServer 5?
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112741
created 27 Feb 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: It takes over 5 minutes to connect, using telnet, to my
UnixWare 7 server from a PC.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112742
created 27 Feb 2001
revised 17 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: Poor performance on Channel B of the Adaptec 3940 or 3944 using
the latest adsl driver (SLS ptf7049) after a soft reboot.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112761
created 27 Feb 2001
revised 12 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I have installed an APC Smart-UPS to my system using the correct
serial cable and a local serial port. I ran mkdev apc and now
every time I get booted into multiuser mode the system shuts down
automatically.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112763
created 27 Feb 2001
revised 12 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I want to create an html page that runs an application
independently of Tarantella 3.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112781
created 28 Feb 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I want to see what files are open and, using resource on my AFPS
server, increase performance for my clients.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112801
created 28 Feb 2001
revised 17 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: When taking a system dump, the system appears to complete the
dump. However, upon rebooting, the dump is bad and an error is
returned by memsize.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112821
created 01 Mar 2001
revised 12 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: The root filesystem does not show as mounted in the mount table,
or when using the 'mount' or 'df -v' commands. Even in single
user mode the root filesystem does not show as being mounted.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112841
created 02 Mar 2001
revised 17 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I have reinstalled the nd package and rebooted my UnixWare 7.1.1
system. Under some circumstances, installing the nd package on
top of Support Level Supplement (SLS) ptf7604c can cause the
following failures:
dynamic linker: /usr/lib/netcfg/bin/ndcfg: relocation error: symbol not found:
bzero; referenced from: /usr/lib/libhpsl.so
Killed
ioctl: Network is unreachable
If I then attempt to run netcfg(1M), I see this error:
(\) ncfgBE(SendNDRequest): Network Driver Utility (ndcfg) died
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112861
created 06 Mar 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: Non-root users are unable to log in and get the error message:
Telnetd: Unable to exec /usr/bin/shserv
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112862
created 06 Mar 2001
revised 16 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: During installation of UnixWare 7.1.1, this error message
is displayed, when entering the TCP/IP Network Domain Name:
Invalid characters in domain name
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112881
created 06 Mar 2001
revised 12 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: After configuring my system with mkdev apc and rebooting I make
sure that the ssd daemon is running. Then, as a test, I unplug the
UPS AC power cable. I configured the utility to wait 7 minutes
before it starts to shut down my system. However, I wait 10 minutes
and the UPS never signals my system; I never get a shutdown
message.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112901
created 07 Mar 2001
revised 12 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I installed Tarantella Enterprise 3 on a Redhat 7.0 server
and cannot start the server after the installation.
The following message occurs:
----------
Successfully installed Tarantella Enterprise 3 Platform Identity
Pack for Intel Linux kernel 2.2+ <ttapip>
Starting Tarantella server, please wait.....
An error occurred starting the Tarantella server.
Setup has been aborted.
----------
At this point you cannot start the server or run any Tarantella
commands.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112902
created 07 Mar 2001
revised 12 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: Sometimes the Object Manager and Array Manager cannot be started
either via a browser or from the command line.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112921
created 08 Mar 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I want to improve the performance of a filesystem on UnixWare 7.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112922
created 08 Mar 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: When I attempt to log in to UnixWare 7.1.1 Webtop, it fails with
"Failed to login to Tarantella - permission denied".
The webtop logfiles under /var/webtop/log show messages similar to:
ERROR: sessionmanager/passwords/entry/add/failure
Failed to add password entry to cache for user
.../_dns/<server>/_user/root:
open("%%TTADATA%%/password/tier3cache/...\xef\xb7\x90_dns\xef\xb7\x90<server>\xe
f\xb7\x90_user\xef\xb7\x90root",
RDWR | CREAT, 0600): (2) No such file or directory
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112923
created 08 Mar 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: At some point I did an in-place upgrade from SCO OpenServer 5.0.4
to OpenServer 5.0.5. Now when I do an in-place upgrade to SCO
OpenServer 5.0.6 on the same machine, it fails. First I see
these error messages during the 5.0.6 upgrade:
idmaster: there are no free major device numbers available
idinstall: Cannot add driver Master entry.
No such device
I continued with the installation and tried to relink the
kernel when he machine came back up, and that also failed.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112941
created 09 Mar 2001
revised 16 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: It is not possible to tune MSGSSZ as specified in the online
documentation.
The documentation states the maximum amount of kernel memory that
can be allocated to IPC messages is 16MB, determined by multiplying
MSGSEG and MSGSSZ together. But, in the same documentation, the
following parameters are listed (in bytes):
Parameter Default Min Max
-----------------------------------
MSGSEG 1 1 1
MSGSSZ 16384 8192 1048576
The product of MSGSEG*MSGSSZ is only 1048576 bytes (1MB).
Increasing either MSGSEG or MSGSSZ beyond the specified maximum
will cause the next kernel build to fail.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112962
created 12 Mar 2001
revised 13 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: When I try to compress or gzip a file greater than 2GB I get the
following error message:
Value too large for defined data type
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112964
created 12 Mar 2001
revised 16 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: I am trying to add a Standard 28800k modem to UnixWare 7 and
the SCOadmin Modem Manager fails with a number of tcl errors
relating to speed.
When I run "scoadmin modem" again there is no modem configured,
yet I am unable to add a new modem. The Modem Manager says
that there is one already there.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?112981
created 13 Mar 2001
revised 16 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: If doing an asynchronous connect(3N), then select(3C) should return
saying the file descriptor representing the socket is 'writeable'
only when the connection has been established.
select(3C) may return "bad file number" after the descriptor is
closed.
Stalls in threaded programs may occur.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?113021
created 14 Mar 2001
revised 16 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: An error is generated when SCOadmin FTP Server Manager is run
after any of the "limit" lines are uncommented in the file
/etc/inet/ftpaccess.
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?113062
created 16 Mar 2001
revised 16 Mar 2001
PROBLEM: After relinking the kernel with no error or warning and
rebooting the system, I can't access the console. The
only way to access the system is to telnet into it. When I
want to access the console, the login prompt doesn't appear
but the following message is displayed:
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