[Simh] Error in rsx-11mplus every 5 minutes?

[Dave Shevett]

So being clever I tried to do this by hand with a del command:

$ DEL DU0:[1,6]SYSSCAN.TMP
Delete file   DU0:[1,6]SYSSCAN.TMP;1            [Y/N/G/Q]? Y
DEL -- Failed to mark file for delete
DU0:[1,6]SYSSCAN.TMP;1 -- No such file
Delete file   DU0:[1,6]SYSSCAN.TMP;2            [Y/N/G/Q]? Y
DEL -- Failed to mark file for delete
DU0:[1,6]SYSSCAN.TMP;2 -- File ID, sequence number check

It looks like the PIP command did work (no error at least)

$ PIP DU0:[1,6]SYSSCAN.TMP;/RM
$

Why did the DEL command not work?

Also, how did you know it was in 1,6?  The error message was ???,???

 -d, learning

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:13 AM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> On 2020-01-08 04:24, Dave Shevett wrote:
> > 04:04:00  SYSLOG -- 70. *ERROR* On scan file open
> > 04:04:00  SYSLOG -- 4. FCS I/O error code = 346
> >            file: DU0:[???,???]SYSSCAN.TMP;1
> > 04:09:00  SYSLOG -- 70. *ERROR* On scan file open
> > 04:09:00  SYSLOG -- 4. FCS I/O error code = 346
> >            file: DU0:[???,???]SYSSCAN.TMP;1
> This is because of an improper shutdown of the system. Probably you just
> turned the machine off, or restarted without first shutting down.
>
> What happens is that there is a file used by the system which is marked
> for deletion when closed. The file do get deleted, because that part is
> managed right. However, the directory entry for the file is then still
> around. When the system starts up, it tries to open the existing file
> before creating a new one, and it does succeed in finding the file in
> the directory, but the actual file is not there anymore. So opening the
> file fails with this error code.
>
> .err 346
> 000346 (230): %I/O-E-IE.NSF, no such file
> .
>
> The solution is to delete the directory entry:
>
> PIP DU0:[1,6]SYSSCAN.TMP;/RM
>
>    Johnny
>
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Dave Shevett
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