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    	Hi Simon,
    
    
    
        DUPMBX = Duplicate mailbox
    
          Severity: Error
    
          Explanation: During initialization, when VCS$IODL tried to create
          its mailbox, it discovered the system already had a mailbox by that
          name. The usual cause is another VCS$IODL already running on the
          system.
    
          User Action: Find the other VCS$IODL and stop it before trying to
          run another, or use VCS$STARTUP.COM which automatically checks and
          stops another VCS$IODL.
    
    
    	What do you find in the different VCS logfiles ?
    
    	Rgds,
    
    	Geert
    
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|  | Thanks, Geert, but shouldn't rebooting the system kill the extra process,
anyway? I can't get through to the customer at the moment (phone is constantly
busy (his, not mine!)). The only thing I can think of is that they're calling
VCS$STARTUP twice, but that should result in only one VCS$IODL, shouldn't it ?
Regards,
Simon
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|  |     >Thanks, Geert, but shouldn't rebooting the system kill the extra
    >process, anyway? 
    
    Indeed, unless they are doing something screwy during system startup.
    They may have some other process running the IODL image but with a 
    different process name.
    
    To see if this is the case do the following:
    
    $ ana/system
    SDA> set output proc.log
    SDA> sho summ/image
    SDA> exit
    $ search  proc.log IODL
    
    
    >I can't get through to the customer at the moment (phone is constantly
    >busy (his, not mine!)). The only thing I can think of is that they're
    >calling VCS$STARTUP twice, but that should result in only one VCS$IODL,
    >shouldn't it ?
    
    Yes it would, unless the RESTART paramater was specified on the second
    call it will fail because the process already exists.
    
    Regards,
         dan
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