OpenVMS System Messages: Companion Guide for Help Message Users

Document revision date: 19 July 1999

OpenVMS System Messages: Companion Guide for Help Message Users

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Datagram Free Queue Insert Failure
Facility: Cluster Port Driver
Explanation: The port driver attempts to reinitialize the port; after 50 failed attempts, it marks the device off line. This error is caused by a failure to obtain access to an interlocked queue. Possible sources of the problem are CI hardware failures or memory, SBI (VAX-11/780), CMI (VAX-11/750), BI, PCI, or XMI contention.
User Action: Contact a DIGITAL support representative.

Datagram Free Queue Remove Failure
Facility: Cluster Port Driver
Explanation: The port driver attempts to reinitialize the port; after 50 failed attempts, it marks the device off line. This error is caused by a failure to obtain access to an interlocked queue. Possible sources of the problem are CI hardware failures or memory, SBI (VAX-11/780), CMI (VAX-11/750), BI, PCI, or XMI contention.
User Action: Contact a DIGITAL support representative.

DBLERR, double error halt restart

Facility: BUGCHECK, System Bugcheck
Explanation: The OpenVMS software detected an irrecoverable hardware error. Because of the severity of the error, further operation is impossible or it could corrupt user data. After all physical memory is written to a system dump file, the system automatically reboots if the BUGREBOOT system parameter is set to 1.
User Action: Thoroughly test all system hardware components. If no hardware errors are located and if the problem persists, note the conditions at the time of the error. Use the BACKUP command with the /IGNORE=NOBACKUP qualifier to make a backup save set of the system dump file and the error log file active at the time of the error. Contact a DIGITAL support representative and describe the conditions leading to the error.

DEADLOCK, deadlock detected

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: The first 12 characters of an ISO 9660 CD-ROM's volume name and volume set name are the same. When an attempt is made to mount the volume, both names are used to construct an OpenVMS lock request to manage volumes within a volume set. However, if the first 12 characters of the names match, the lock request fails.
User Action: Mount the volume specifying a different volume set name.

DECPTREF, decrement page table reference count error

Facility: BUGCHECK, System Bugcheck
Explanation: The OpenVMS software detected an irrecoverable, inconsistent condition. After all physical memory is written to a system dump file, the system automatically reboots if the BUGREBOOT system parameter is set to 1.
User Action: Use the BACKUP command with the /IGNORE=NOBACKUP qualifier to make a backup save set of the system dump file and the error log file active at the time of the error. Contact a DIGITAL support representative and describe the conditions leading to the error.

DEFCLI, you are not authorized to specify CLI parameters

Facility: LOGIN, Login Procedure
Explanation: Authorization is needed to specify an alternate command language interpreter (CLI) or alternate CLI tables.
User Action: Log in again without specifying the /CLI or /TABLES qualifiers after your user name.

DELCONPFN, fatal error in delete contents of PFN

DELETE, error deleting 'file-name' file ID ('numeric-string')

Facility: BACKUP, Backup Utility
Explanation: An error is encountered during an attempt to delete the file with the specified file identification in response to the /DELETE qualifier. The accompanying message provides additional information.
User Action: None.

DELETESWL, 'device-name' is write protected - file deletion pass not executed

Facility: BACKUP, Backup Utility
Explanation: The input device is software write locked. The Backup utility cannot perform the file deletion pass.
User Action: Dismount the input device, remount it writable, and either delete the files by hand or reenter the BACKUP command.

DELGBLSEC, delete global section error

DELGBLWCB, delete global section window error

DELPORT, deleted port 'port-name'

Facility: LAT, LAT Facility
Explanation: The specified port has been deleted by LATCP.
User Action: None.

DELSERVICE, deleted service 'service-name'

Facility: LAT, LAT Facility
Explanation: The specified service has been deleted by LATCP.
User Action: None.

DELWSLEX, delete working set list entry index error

DENIGNORED, /DENSITY qualifier not appropriate to this device; ignored

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: The /DENSITY qualifier was supplied on the command line for a device that does not support various densities. The qualifier is ignored.
User Action: Omit the /DENSITY qualifier to avoid getting this system message. Use the /MEDIA_FORMAT=[NO]COMPACTION qualifier if the device supports compaction.

DENSITY, 'saveset-spec' does not support specified density - default used

Facility: BACKUP, Backup Utility
Explanation: The specified tape hardware does not support the density selected by the /DENSITY qualifier. The Backup utility uses the default density.
User Action: Use a different tape device, or specify a different density.

DEQSUBLCKS, tried to dequeue lock with sublocks

DETSHADINCON, mount has detected an inconsistent state for shadowing

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: MOUNT has detected an internal inconsistency while attempting to mount a shadow set. This message indicates a failure in either MOUNT or the OpenVMS Volume Shadowing software.
User Action: Contact a DIGITAL support representative and provide as much detail as possible about the circumstances surrounding this error.

DEVBUSY, mount or dismount in progress on device

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: A mount or dismount operation is currently in progress on the device, possibly on another node in the cluster. If the condition persists, the other mount may be waiting for an operator request to complete, or the device may be malfunctioning.
User Action: Determine where the mount or dismount is in progress and rectify the problem that is holding it up.

DEVCOUNT, number of devices must match number of volumes

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: The number of devices specified in the DCL command MOUNT to mount a disk volume set does not match the number of volume labels specified in the command.
User Action: Verify the names of the devices and volume labels for the command and then reenter the command with a matching number of devices and volume labels.

DEVDMT, device is marked for dismount

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: The device is in the process of being dismounted. No mount requests can be processed on this device until the dismount completes. If this condition persists, files are open on the device.
User Action: Close any open files on the device. If other processes have open files, the system manager may need to resolve the situation.

DEVICES, only one device allowed

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: More than one device was specified in the DCL command MOUNT. Only one volume at a time can be mounted for this specified type of mount.
User Action: Reenter the DCL command MOUNT, specifying only one device.

DEVNOFE, device does not support FORCED ERROR handling. To override use the /OVERRIDE=NO_FORCED_ERROR qualifier

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: The device being mounted into a shadow set does not support forced error handling and the /OVERRIDE=NO_FORCED_ERROR qualifier was not specified.
User Action: Specify the /OVERRIDE=NO_FORCED_ERROR qualifier and retry the operation.

DEVNOTKNWN, device not known: 'input'

Facility: SYSGEN, System Generation Utility
Explanation: The specific device is unknown.
User Action: See the OpenVMS VAX Device Support Manual for the correct UNIBUS controller name.

DEVSHAMEM, device is already mounted as a shadow set member

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: The device you attempted to mount as a nonshadowed device is already mounted elsewhere in the cluster as a shadow set member.
User Action: Mount the device as a member of a shadow set. You can use DSA: to specify a generic virtual unit if you do not know which virtual unit contains the device.

DIAGPACK, 'disk' is a diagnostic pack

Facility: BACKUP, Backup Utility
Explanation: Either a Backup utility operation attempted to use a volume identified as a diagnostic volume, or the INITIALIZE command was used to initialize a diagnostic volume. In either case, the volume cannot be used.
User Action: Retry the operation using another volume.

DIFVOLMNT, different volume already mounted on this device

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: Previously, a different volume was mounted on this device on another node in the cluster. The device may be in mount verification on the other node. Either the original volume was removed from the device and replaced with another, or its volume identification was overwritten.
User Action: Restore the previously mounted volume to the device. If this is not possible, dismount the device on all nodes that currently have it mounted. Then retry the mount operation.

DIRENTRY, ACP failed to find same directory entry

DISKCLASS, fatal error detected by Disk Class driver (DUDRIVER)

DISKFRAG, free space on 'device-name' is too fragmented

Facility: BACKUP, Backup Utility
Explanation: The number of free extents on the specified volume is unreasonably large. The volume cannot be used as a save-set disk.
User Action: Reinitialize the volume, or select another volume and retry the operation.

DISMAL, all of the volumes have been dismounted

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: All of the volumes mounted by this invocation of $MOUNT or the MOUNT command have been dismounted because of errors that were detected after the volumes were mounted.
User Action: Take the action based on the preceding messages, and reenter the MOUNT command.

DISMOUNTD, volume 'volume-name' of volume-set 'volume-set-name' dismounted

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: The specified volume of the specified volume set has been dismounted because of errors encountered in processing the volume after it is mounted. An error with part of a volume set causes the entire volume set to be dismounted. This message appears for each member of the volume set that is dismounted due to the error condition. Only those volumes that were mounted by this invocation of the MOUNT command are listed. If the volume set name is not available, the string "name n/a" appears as the name of the volume set.
User Action: Take action based on the accompanying message and reenter the MOUNT command.

DISMPART, some of the volumes have been dismounted

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: Some of the volumes that were mounted by this invocation of the Mount utility or the MOUNT command have been dismounted due to errors detected after the volumes were mounted.
User Action: Take action based on the preceding messages, and reenter the MOUNT command.

DISRECONNECT, you are not authorized to do reconnections

Facility: LOGIN, Login Procedure
Explanation: Authorization is needed to reconnect to disconnected processes.
User Action: Log in again without specifying the /CONNECT qualifier after your user name.

DISUSER, account is disabled

Facility: LOGIN, Login Procedure
Explanation: An attempt is made to log in to an account when the account is disabled. An account's system access can be restricted by setting the DISUSER flag in the user authorization file. This message is written to the system accounting and security audit records; the NOTVALID message displays to the user.
User Action: None.

DOUBLDALOC, double deallocation of swap file space

DOUBLDEALO, double deallocation of memory block

DRIVENAM, driver name is 'driver-name'

Facility: SYSGEN, System Generation Utility
Explanation: This message is issued with the message SYSVERDIF to identify the driver.
User Action: See the SYSGEN message SYSVERDIF for user action information.

DRVERR, fatal drive error

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: In a SCSI OpenVMS Cluster environment, a request has been made to mount a device on a shared SCSI bus and the device does not support SCSI-2 tagged command queuing (TCQ).
User Action: If you want to mount a device on a shared SCSI bus, the device must support TCQ.

DSSI Terminator Power failure, possible blown fuse.
Facility: Cluster Port Driver
Explanation: The adapter has detected a hardware problem.
User Action: Check the terminator fuse. If it is blown, replace it or contact a DIGITAL support representative to check the DSSI hardware.

DUALLOC, dual allocation on volume 'n'

Facility: RBLD, REBUILD Command (Mount Utility)
Explanation: A logical block on the specified relative volume is allocated to more than one file.
User Action: Execute the DCL command ANALYZE/DISK_STRUCTURE/NOREPAIR for the volume. This command invokes the Analyze/Disk_Structure utility, which issues a message for each case of dual file allocation. Each message identifies the file name, the range of logical block numbers that are allocated, and the virtual block numbers that map to the logical blocks.

After you determine the files involved in each case of dual allocation, disallow any other file activity for them and copy all but one file to a new version. Then delete the versions containing dual allocation. This causes blocks that are not actually free to be marked as free blocks in the storage bit map.

Finally, reexecute the ANALYZE/DISK_STRUCTURE/REPAIR command. Then examine each file and reconstruct from backup media any files that have been corrupted.

Dump aborted, page tables may be corrupted
Facility: BUGCHECK, System Bugcheck
Explanation: When writing a selective dump (SYSGEN parameter DUMPSTYLE set to 1), the OpenVMS operating system relies heavily on the integrity of the various system and process page tables. This message indicates that the system might have detected corruption in these page tables, and it will abort further dumping. You might not be able to analyze the dump.
User Action: Contact a DIGITAL support representative.

DUPDEVSPC, duplicate device specified

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: The same tape device is specified more than once in a list of tape devices for the DCL command MOUNT.
User Action: Reenter the MOUNT command, specifying each device only once.

DUPLABEL, duplicate label 'label' not allowed with /EXACT_ORDER qualifier

Facility: BACKUP, Backup Utility
Explanation: Duplicate labels cannot be specified with the /EXACT_ORDER qualifier. The specified label matches a label that was entered previously.
User Action: Reenter the command, specifying unique labels.

DUPOPT, previously specified callable interface option type invalid, argument position 'position', option type = 'option-type'

Facility: BACKUP, Backup Utility
Explanation: An option type is specified more than once in the set of options. It is illegal to specify duplicates for this option type.
User Action: Note the value of the option type found and its relative position in the set of options specified to the BACKUP API; then remove redundant specifications of this option type. (Refer to the BACKUP documentation and the BACKUP API definitions files for valid option values.)

DUPRVN, duplicate volume number already mounted

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: A volume of the same relative volume number and the same volume set name is already mounted. An attempt is being made to mount a volume that belongs to a volume set with the same name as a volume set that is already mounted.
User Action: Make sure that the correct volume has been mounted. Verify that the volume status (/SHARE, /NOSHARE, /GROUP, or /SYSTEM) is defined consistently with volumes already mounted.

DUPVOLNAM, volume label already present in set

Facility: MOUNT, Mount Utility
Explanation: During an attempt to add a volume to an existing volume set, the specified volume set is found to contain a volume with the label specified.
User Action: Verify the labels on the existing volumes in the set. Choose a new label for the volume you are adding to the set, reinitialize the volume, and reenter the DCL command MOUNT/BIND.

DZRO_ISD, image contains demand zero sections

Facility: LOADER, Executive Image Loader
Explanation: A load request was made for an executive image that illegally contains demand zero sections.
User Action: Correct the link procedure used to build the executive image; specify the appropriate PSECT_ATTR and COLLECT statements to eliminate the demand zero sections.

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