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Conference csc32::consolemanager

Title:	POLYCENTER Console Manager
Notice:	Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS:
Moderator:	CSC32::BUTTERWORTH

Created:	Thu Aug 06 1992
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1541
Total number of notes:	6564

641.0. "Watch process core dumps C3" by DARGLE::COUGHLAN () Tue Mar 07 1995 16:02

A customer has reported to me that when they select the option to stop watch and
answer YES to stop the watch process, the process does not actually stop and
output continues to be written to the specified watch file. If you then select
the watch option again, and select the option to start another watch , the C3
will core dump. 

The customer is running PCM 1.5-006 on OSF/1 V2.0

Thanks,

Dave.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
641.1		ZENDIA::DBIGELOW	Innovate, Integrate, Evaporate	`Tue Mar 07 1995 18:42`	9
	dave, Not sure what the problem is, but will take a look at it. If you want, you can tell the customer to set an environment variable and then restart the C3. This will dump the watch command as well as the stop watch command. The environment variable is CONSOLE_DEBUG and can be set to anything such as 1 or true. Dave
641.2	output fwith debug set.	DARGLE::COUGHLAN		`Fri Mar 10 1995 10:28`	29
	Dave, I enabled debug on the system and when the watch process started I got the following output: C3: Watch Command dump (4 args) argv[0] = /usr/opt/DCR150/bin/OSF/console_watch argv[1] = -output argv[2] = /usr/users/dave/temp argv[3] = ALL C3: Watch PID: 1763 (000006E3) POLYCENTER Console Manager Watch facility Version V1.5-006 Copyright (c) 1994 Digital Equipment Corporation. All Rights Reserved When I stop the watch process the following is output:- POLYCENTER Console Manager Watch facility Version V1.5-006 Copyright (c) 1994 Digital Equipment Corporation. All Rights Reserved C3: Stopping watch PID 000006E3 When stopping the process is seems to use the wrong PID ? Thanks, Dave.
641.3		ZENDIA::DBIGELOW	Innovate, Integrate, Evaporate	`Fri Mar 10 1995 14:22`	8
	Dave, It appears as though the PID is correct (6E3). According to the base note, the watch process never terminates and the C3 crashes when the user tries to start the watch process for the second time. So the question is, what do you see for output when you try it again? dave
641.4	no output and C3 core dumps	DARGLE::COUGHLAN		`Fri Mar 10 1995 17:14`	12
	Dave, When I stop the watch process, it fails to actually stop the process. When I select option watch again, the option start is the only available option. When I start watch a second time, I see (with debug on) the process starting and I enter the watch facility interface. Then the C3 window core dumps and I am left with a core file, no C3 window and two watch processes still running. There is no further output from CM after the second watch process starts. Regards, Dave.
641.5		ZENDIA::DBIGELOW	Innovate, Integrate, Evaporate	`Fri Mar 10 1995 23:12`	8
	Dave, Well, I'll have to look at the code and see if I can figure this one out. Are you testing this internally? If so, would you be willing to test out a potental fix? It will be in the new C3 which I hope you also will not mind testing. Dave
641.6	will test	DARGLE::COUGHLAN		`Mon Mar 13 1995 09:32`	6
	Dave, I can reproduce this problem on an internal system and would be more than willing to test a potential fix and the new C3. I am running OSF/1 v 2.0 Dave.