Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!prlhp1!ockenden From: ockenden@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Paul T Ockenden) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Error message of the day Message-ID: <525@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> Date: 14 Jul 88 07:21:12 GMT References: <8807101852.AA28302@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: ockenden@prlhp1.UUCP (Paul T Ockenden) Organization: Philips Radiotherapy Systems, Crawley, U.K. Lines: 23 In article <8807101852.AA28302@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> KEMPKEC@carleton.EDU (Fuzzy Chunk of Old Muffins) writes: >Here's a charming error message that VMS game me the other day. > >%SET-E-NOTSET, process NAMSRV, PID=20600236, not suspended >-SYSTEM-W-NONEXPR, nonexistent process > >"Hi. You see this process? Well it doesn't exist. . ." > > Perhaps it's time for another line of work. If the process was in one of the Resource Wait states (RWnnn) then you can get to the stage where part of VMS thinks the process exists, and part of it thinks it has gone.... I can recall a situation I had where SHOW SYS said it was there, but SHOW PROCESS said it didn't exist, and ANAL/SYST (a wonderful name for a command!) also thought it had gone.... -- Paul Ockenden Philips Radiotheapy Systems, Crawley, UK +44 293 28787 x 4349 UUCP - uunet!mcvax!ukc!prlhp1!ockenden JANET - ockenden%prlhp1@uk.ac.Ukc Opions (where expressed), are those of Paul Ockenden the individual, NOT Paul Ockenden the Philips Employee !!