Looks to me that DSA8: is not properly defined: RMS doestn't recofnize DSA8 to be a device. SHOW DEVICE DSA8 will render an error as well. SHO LOG DSA8 will tell what's wrong.
DSA8 is not a logical name - never has been. It's a 2-member disk shadow set with ~295,000 free blocks.
ALOE$ sho dev/full dsa8:
Disk DSA8:, device type MSCP served SCSI disk, is online, mounted, file-oriented
device, shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.
Error count 0 Operations completed 71073
Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
Reference count 12 Default buffer size 512
Total blocks 4109470 Sectors per track 85
Total cylinders 3022 Tracks per cylinder 16
Volume label "UserShadow01" Relative volume number 0
Cluster size 4 Transaction count 18
Free blocks 295472 Maximum files allowed 410947
Extend quantity 5 Mount count 1
Mount status System Cache name "_DSA50:XQPCACHE"
Extent cache size 64 Maximum blocks in extent cache 29547
File ID cache size 64 Blocks currently in extent cache 608
Quota cache size 0 Maximum buffers in FCP cache 3018
Volume owner UIC [1,1] Vol Prot S:RWCD,O:RWCD,G:RWCD,W:RWCD
Volume Status: subject to mount verification, do not unload on dismount,
write-back caching enabled.
Disk $1$DUA521:, device type MSCP served SCSI disk, is online, member of shadow
set DSA8:, error logging is enabled.
Error count 0 Shadow member operation count 54363
Host name "HSJ004" Host type, avail HSJ4, yes
Alternate host name "HSJ005" Alt. type, avail HSJ4, yes
Allocation class 1
Disk $1$DUA541:, device type MSCP served SCSI disk, is online, member of shadow
set DSA8:, error logging is enabled.
Error count 0 Shadow member operation count 54360
Host name "HSJ004" Host type, avail HSJ4, yes
Alternate host name "HSJ005" Alt. type, avail HSJ4, yes
Allocation class 1
ALOE$
My system disk is DSA50:
ALOE$ sho dev dsa50
Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt
Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt
DSA50: Mounted 0 ALPHASYS 5340231 686 1
$1$DUA130: (HSJ000) ShadowSetMember 0 (member of DSA50
$1$DUA140: (HSJ000) ShadowSetMember 0 (member of DSA50
Since this node is being maintained for legacy data, there is not a lot of user activity. However, I believe all accounts would experience this problem. My personal account with SETPRV, receives the error. The work around is to reset account passwords via AUTHORIZE.
Having SETPRV itself is not relevant here. Try adding SYSPRV (set proc/priv=sysprv) and try to set your password. Continue to add privs until it works. Assuming that you get it to work by addings privs to your account, the last one added should provide you with a hint as to the root problem.
Privileges on the account make no difference. I should have been clearer in earlier post - I have SETPRV on my account and with "SET PROC/PRIV=ALL", I am unable to change my password from the command line.
I found the problem!!! The only file I didn't check was the password history file.
Years ago, this cluster was a MI-cluster. The VAXes were retired, but the VAX system disk remained. For whatever reason the password history and directory file were never migrated to the AXP system disk.
ALOE$ sho log vms$password_history
"VMS$PASSWORD_HISTORY" = "DSA0:[VMS$COMMON.SYSEXE]VMS$PASSWORD_HISTORY.DATA"
(LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
ALOE$ sho dev dsa0:
%SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHDEV, no such device available
ALOE$
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I had a hobbyist account here but can longer access the site.
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