SUMMARY: ddr_db file and lmf

From: Kevin Maguire <K.Maguire_at_dl.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 18:00:14 +0000 (GMT)

Hi

Original post appended after my Sig

Thanks to
Tim Winders <twinders_at_spc.cc.tx.us>
Jim Belonis <belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu>
Maurer Felix <maurerf_at_post.ch>
Robert Otterson <Robert.Otterson_at_digital.com>
Ladie Geronimo <lgeronim_at_jhsph.edu>

For the ddr.db problem all replies suggested rebuilding the kernel
and/or re-creating the file with ddr_config. None of these
suggestions worked. But today I did 2 things,

1) Upgraded the firmare in my machine to V7.0

2) Changed the (uid,gid) of ddr.db to (3,4)==(bin,bin). I noticed
that the owner and group was inconsistent with the numbers listed in
/usr/.smdb./OSFHWBASE400.inv, though I have no idea how it happened.

One of these changes, most probably the second, cured the problem.

My lmf database had become screwed up so I issue'd all the duplicate
PAks to sepereate files, and reloaded one of each. Now my lmf
database seems more organised!

Thanks for the replies
Kev

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Hi
I ran "uerf -R -r 300" on my 3000/300L and I came accross this from
recent boots
 DDR: WARNING: Unable to obtain Device 
  _Information Database 
      Unable to open file /etc/ddr.db 
 DDR: WARNING: Basic Defaults will be 
  _used. 
This message has been sent all of the 21 times I (or someone else)
booted the machine since my upgrade to DUnix V4.0 (21 seems a lot!).
Since the system seems to be functioning correctly it's currently not
a problem, but I can see the file /etc/ddr.db (and the text version
/etc/ddr.dbase), so why can't the system.  It's on the root partition
of my boot (SCSI) device, and the permissions on these files are 755??
Also my lmf database seems to have got mixed up, or has it?  If I do a 
# lmf list | sort
Product                   Status                     Users: Total      Active
DECTALK-SW                active                            unlimited
DECTALK-SW-USER           active                            unlimited
EXT-MATH-LIB              active                            unlimited
EXT-MATH-LIB-RT           active                            unlimited
FORTRAN-O                 active                            unlimited
FORTRAN-O                 active, multiple                  unlimited
FORTRAN90-O               active                            unlimited
OSF-BASE                  active                            unlimited
OSF-BASE                  active, multiple                  unlimited
OSF-BASE                  active, multiple                  unlimited
OSF-DEV                   active                            unlimited
OSF-USR                   active                            unlimited
3 copies of OSF-BASE, 2 of which are "multiple" ??  Not to mention
the 2 copies of FORTRAN-O ...
I must admit to not understanding lmf at all really, and find it a
huge pain whenever I have to install new software/versions (which
isn't my job, but if I _need_ the software then I have to do it myself
....)
TIA,
Kev
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