Info only: FS472 Filing System Installation failed and error in Big.DLL (OpenInsight Specific)
At 10 DEC 2000 10:37:28PM Scott, LMS wrote:
Hi All.
I thought posting this here might help me if it happens again. Maybe it will help some other people too.
We have Win95 clients, Novell Lan V5.x.
On Friday afternoon we shut down all the PCs and Servers because they were turning power off to the building for a while over the weekend.
On Monday when I come back, the servers have been started up again, no problems, except when I try to get into Open Insight I get the following error message
Filing System Installation failed (REPOS_BFS FS472) Open Engine cannot continue.
Shutting down, counting to ten and starting up again didn't help
The LH stuff seemed to be working at least we did an LHSTOP and LHSTART on the server.
Eventually (following the troubleshooting guides) I got into the network settings for the Novell Client (labelled something like IPX 32bit Novell intranet Client for ).
In the properties | Advanced IPX I turned on
Primary Logical Board and picked Ethernet_802.2 and
checked the radio button for Use Only and Ethernet_802.2
Saving this and rebooting fixed the problem. Previously it was all set to auto and we survived several server shutdowns due to blackouts and moving buildings earlier this year without having to set frames specifically so I don't know what was different about this shutdown. I chose Ethernet_802.2 on the completely arbitary basis that the troubleshooting document said it was better than 802.3, the server is set up to run all the frame types.
I got a slightly different error message on another PC, something like General Protection Fault in Oengine.exe click on details, when I clicked on details it said error in Big.dll - this problem was also cured by setting the frame types to 802.2 specifically.
NLMs work in mysterious ways.
Scott.
At 11 DEC 2000 12:44AM Donald Bakke wrote:
Janet,
the server is set up to run all the frame types
Is this necessary? You would get better performance if you just standardized on one frame type.
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 11 DEC 2000 06:09PM Scott, LMS wrote:
Hi Donald
I dunno if it's necessary or not. I will ask the network tech. I don't get much say in the matter, in that if I have fixed it at the client end, I doubt he will want to change the server any more than he has already.
He may think it increases compatibility with the other systems we have, in that my development novell network is linked to another novell network and an NT network.
Janet