Environment
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 6
Situation
Ran into the problem documented in TIDs: 3463889, 10080852.
These TIDs deal with the deletion of the uxaction.log file used by
TTS. Sometimes after upgrading from sp5 to sp6, the TTS enabled
volumes would not mount for the reasons mentioned in these TIDs. In
this case, it's necessary to backrev to sp5, disable the TTS on the
affected volumes, then delete the uxaction.log file so that the
volumes can mount under sp6. The problem was that the uxaction.log
could not be deleted even after following the steps in the
TIDs. Load MONITOR->FILE OPEN/LOCK ACTIVITY->select the
volume and browse for the uxaction.log file showed that there was a
lock on the uxaction.log file by connection 0. This prevented the
uxaction.log from being deleted. Clearly there was some other
application they had loaded that was using TTS and locking the
uxaction.log.
Resolution
In this case the other application was NDPS printing. NDPS does use
TTS to track its print jobs. After unloading NDPS, the uxaction log
could then be deleted.