Hi,
I'm experiencing system hangs under heavy load on our DU 4.0E, pk3
system (an Alpha PC 164LX box with 512MB RAM). The system hangs did not
occur before installing pk3 where only pk2 was installed. With "system
hangs" I mean that the machine just gets stuck. All I can do is to reboot
it by pushing the reset button. There are not log entries whatsoever.
So I decided to take a closer look at the patches and found some patches
which sound like they could lead to something like this.
These are OSFPAT0036000435 and
OSFPAT0042900435.
Well: Has anyone ever tried to delete patches with dupatch? It's a
nightmare and a perfect example for how not to design a user interface.
First: The patches cannot be selected by number. Instead you have to
read though the complete unsorted 200+ entry list in order to find the
appropriate patch number to delete. Second: If the patch dependency check
fails, the message scrolls by so fast that you have a hard time to
push CTRL-S fast enough to catch it.
While I managed to delete OSFPAT0036000435 I just can't delete
OSFPAT0042900435 because some other patches depend on it. When I try to
select all of the patches which depend on each other, I still get some
messages stating that this and that patch can't be deleted because
some other patch depends on it.
To make a long story short: Is there any other way to delete this
patch OSFPAT0042900435? I've already tried "setld -d" but it says
that patches can only be deleted with dupatch.
Or should I try to go back to pk2? If so, how would I do this?
Delete *all* patches and re-install pk2 ?
Thanks // Tom
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