After over 5 years sterling service, RDKINSTALL has given up and crashes with the following line:

ENG0711: RDKINSTALL, line 66. Too many parameters passed to procedure RDKMODULEINSTALLG'…
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This occurs both from the called subroutine and from the System Editor Exec line.

Reverting to backups gives the same problem and the problem also occurs on a client site. All running under Windows XP

I have a backup on a Windows 7 machine, which also shows this error.

OI version is 9.1.1

I have retrieved the situation by copying and recompiling RDKINSTALL in my own App cf. SYSPROG. Now seems to work. What could have caused this? Anyone any thoughts. As far as I can tell nothing else appears corrupted but I am obviously nervous.

I did experiment with language sets but thought I had set everything back to the default. A tenuous link I would suspect.

In OpenInsight 7.x (and maybe into 8.x) the source code for RDKModuleInstall was available for customization. This version of the source code accepted only 2 parameters to the function. Due to circumstances the current source code is not available and the function now requires 3 parameters.

If you attach the RDK and look in the SYSUPGRADE table you should have a record called %RUN%. This record is a compiled version of RDKModuleInstall from the system where the RDK is deployed from.

When you install the RDK the RDKINSTALL command attaches and then attempts to run the %RUN% program.

If you build an RDK from an old system and deploy it into a new system you can receive this error because the old %RUN% record only accepts 2 parameters and the new RDKINSTALL command passes it 3 parameters.

If you have not customized RDKModuleInstall you can fix the problem in this RDK by following these steps from your OpenInsight 9.x system:

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Attach the RDK. I.e. attach_table "C:\RDKLOCATION"

Run copy_row "SYSOBJ", "$RDKMODULEINSTALL", "SYSUPGRADE", "%RUN%", 1, 1, 0)

Run detach_volume "C:\RDKLOCATION"

Now run RDKInstall "C:\RDKLOCATION"

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These steps will overwrite the old %RUN% program with the version that has 3 parameters.

Thank you Jared. Unfortunately, if I have followed your instructions correctly, this doesn't work. As the source and target are essentially the same system I do not believe I am using any old OI versions as source to install on a newer version. The opposite is more likely and I have not interfered with the existing modules. Looking into the repository most modules seem to be dated 2009 apart from RDKINSTALLINIT which is dated 2002. Still a mystery I'm afraid.

BTW I have not customised RDKMODULEINSTALL, simply calling it from within a subroutine.

Get SYS1002: The object code is invalid. when I try and run after following your instructions.

Recompiled the RevTech given source code to get going again. Curious as to what has happened, but probably will never know.

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