Reboot required
Not really, in fact, but it turned outr to be the easy way out for a about 50 accesses to this blog, all LEF, and waiting for one device. SDA> SHO PROC/CHAN showed all had LDA1 “Busy Dpnd” and STOP/ID did not work at all. Stopping the webserver made no difference either. Still have to figure out what “Busy Dpnd” means (Busy I can think of, but combined with “Dpnd” – whatever that may mean….”.LDA1 is the logical device for all web-based stuff, including PHP code – both generic and blog-specific.
Anyway: I rebooted Diana, it came up like a charm within a few minutes all was in working order again. Just the test-site for a new homepage needs to be set.
Thinking afterwards: I should have crashed the system, it may have given a clue on what was wrong. I forgot.
Device deaccess pending, and device busy.
Might be a lost I/O, or a stuck I/O, or an errant I/O counter.
Check your LD version, for starters.
Thanks, Hoff.
LD version is the one included in VMS 8.3 (and when updates were available, all were included. System is up-to-date, so that would not really be the problem. I guess it has to do with the number of requests out on the device – it was over 50! It might be that some quota has been exhausted, or the software (PHP, in this case) doesn’t handle IO execoptions properly. Or not all of them.