The good Doctor hit it right on the head.
Thank you Mr. Blinn.
Problem:
Were running Tru64 Version 4.0F on Compaq XP1000's.
I upgraded a simulation software package called xfdtd from version
5.1 to 5.2. Now when attempting to start the application I get the
following error:
%DECthreads bugcheck (version V3.15-421), terminating execution.
% Reason: vpInit: (os/kern) invalid address (1)
nxm_task_init(11ffffa80,3ffc04359f0)
% Running on OSF1 V4.0 on , 768Mb; 1 CPUs
Solution:
The vendor was building the release on 5.0 using non shared libs.
The vendor agreed to build in on a 4.0F release:-)
To quote Dr. Tom Blinn:
There are LOTS of things about the threads libraries that can get
you into trouble; in general, if you're using the non-shared libs,
you MUST do the build on the system that will run the code; at
least, on the same revision. With shared libraries, there is more
compatibility, but only in moving to LATER versions than what you
built on (e.g., moving from V4.0F to V4.0G should work, but from
V5.x to V4.0F will NOT work for anything non-trivial).
Received on Thu Jul 26 2001 - 21:42:50 NZST