SP6 and 4.91 SP2 Client 1

[tmattson]

Has anyone installed SP and/or the 4.91sp2 client? Any feedback?

 

[marvhuffaker]

I have hesitated to install SP6 just becuase what they had going with SP5 was so stable, why screw with it. Probably try it out sometime in the near future.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[blister911]

We are running 4.91 sp2 client. I do not support the desktops, so I don't know all the issues that may have come up, but nothing major has come my way that would require us to revert to a prior client. Personally, I have had no problems with the client on my workstations.

We have not upgraded to SP6, either.

After the upgrade you will also want to check for any new fixes that have been released since the service pack you apply. I know we have applied several after our install of SP5.

 

[marvhuffaker]

I successfully installed NW6.5 SP6 the other day to our production GroupWise server. No major problems. Minor problem was that it overwrote my custom apache configurations (for WebAccess), and it didn't backup the files it replaced with backups. So I had to salvage the original configurations and put them back in place.



Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[tmattson]

Marvin,

Do you have any additional comments concerning SP6? Has it been stable since the upgrade?

 

[marvhuffaker]

It's been solid. Haven't had a single running problem.

Like I mentioned previously, when I first installed it, it blew up my custom Apache configuration and didn't save backups (even though I selected the 'backup all files" option).. I was able to pull them out of Salvage and was back in business in about 5 minutes. But other than that, it's been great.

I have only installed it on my servers running GroupWise, Messenger, iFolder, NetStorage. I have not applied it to any server running iPrint, eguide, Virtual Office, or ZEN services.



Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

See me speak at GWAVACON Jan 21-23 in Dallas.

http://www.redjuju.com/company/events.htm

 

[tmattson]

Marvin,

I attempted to upgrade this evening and got an abend...here's part of the log. Had to backout. Now NDPS is crapping out.

Any idea's?



Novell Open Enterprise Server, NetWare 6.5
PVER: 6.50.06

Server WCQ halted Thursday, January 4, 2007 6:17:55.227 pm
Abend 8 on P00: Server-5.70.06: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error code 00000000)

Registers:
CS = 0060 DS = 007B ES = 007B FS = 007B GS = 007B SS = 0068
EAX = 9BE9EC00 EBX = FFFFC476 ECX = 00000000 EDX = 98AEDCE6
ESI = 9BE9AFFF EDI = 9BE9B075 EBP = 98AEDC73 ESP = 9BE9EAE4
EIP = 863E2BDC FLAGS = 00010282
863E2BDC 0FB60E MOVZX ECX, byte ptr [ESI]=?
EIP in LIBC.NLM at code start +00095BDCh
Access Location: 0x9BE9AFFF

The violation occurred while processing the following instruction:
863E2BDC 0FB60E MOVZX ECX, byte ptr [ESI]
863E2BDF 83EB01 SUB EBX, 00000001
863E2BE2 880F MOV [EDI], CL
863E2BE4 75F0 JNZ 863E2BD6
863E2BE6 5F POP EDI
863E2BE7 5E POP ESI
863E2BE8 5B POP EBX
863E2BE9 C3 RET
863E2BEA 90 NOP
863E2BEB 90 NOP

 

[tmattson]

I am now getting this NDPSM error...

ndpsm 3.01-199

 

[tmattson]

I was able to restore the database from tape and all is well with NDPSM. Any ideas concerning SP6?

 

[marvhuffaker]

You're looking at the wrong abend. That shows Abend #8. You need to trace the abend.log file back to abend #1 - that is the only reliable abend, and your starting point for troubleshooting. Each abend 'should' be logged in sequence of when it happened.

Note that if this is an NDPS problem, Novell does have a Post SP6 NDPS patch - I believe there was an abend problem identified immediately after SP6 was released.

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2974964.htm

(Looks like this patch was released today - updated from what I had seen earlier.)

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

See me speak at GWAVACON Jan 21-23 in Dallas.

http://www.redjuju.com/company/events.htm

 

[tmattson]

I see...here's abend 1


Novell Open Enterprise Server, NetWare 6.5
PVER: 6.50.06

Server WCQ halted Thursday, January 4, 2007 6:14:41.216 pm
Abend 1 on P00: Server-5.70.06: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error code 00000000)

Registers:
CS = 0060 DS = 007B ES = 007B FS = 007B GS = 007B SS = 0068
EAX = 982F1340 EBX = FFFFBD36 ECX = 00000046 EDX = 00000065
ESI = 982ECFFF EDI = 982ED075 EBP = 98AED1F3 ESP = 982F1224
EIP = 863E2BDC FLAGS = 00010282
863E2BDC 0FB60E MOVZX ECX, byte ptr [ESI]=?
EIP in LIBC.NLM at code start +00095BDCh
Access Location: 0x982ECFFF

The violation occurred while processing the following instruction:
863E2BDC 0FB60E MOVZX ECX, byte ptr [ESI]
863E2BDF 83EB01 SUB EBX, 00000001
863E2BE2 880F MOV [EDI], CL
863E2BE4 75F0 JNZ 863E2BD6
863E2BE6 5F POP EDI
863E2BE7 5E POP ESI
863E2BE8 5B POP EBX
863E2BE9 C3 RET
863E2BEA 90 NOP
863E2BEB 90 NOP



Running process: GW_TaskThrd_0 Process
Thread Owned by NLM: NDPSGW.NLM
Stack pointer: 982F08D8
OS Stack limit: 982ED800
Scheduling priority: 67371008
Wait state: 5050090 Wait for interrupt

 

[tmattson]

Looks like it was NDPS causing this...by the look of the abend log. Good call.

 

[tmattson]

I got adventurous and loaded SP5. I was at SP4. No problemo. I'll sit on the SP5 for a little while...lol

Thanks.

 

[marvhuffaker]

Yes that looks like the abend they mention in the 'issues resolved' section for NDPSGW in that patch. Did that resolve your issues and is your server stable again?

Marvin

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

See me speak at GWAVACON Jan 21-23 in Dallas.

http://www.redjuju.com/company/events.htm

 

[tmattson]

At SP5 it is...getting to late to try 6...but I will give it another go in afew days and see if this fixes it.

Thanks for everything Marvin