This chapter provides additional RPC status messages to those documented in the OSF DCE Application Development Reference in rpc_status_codes(7rpc). These status codes reflect additional RPC functionality provided with Digital DCE for OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS Alpha.

The messages are in alphabetical order by message text.

rpc_s_auth_bad_integrity, incorrect encryption key used in data transmission

• Explanation: The encryption key used in the data transmission is incorrect. The principal receiving the RPC call tries to decrypt the message but cannot obtain a valid checksum. This problem sometimes occurs when you are using RGY_EDIT to change the password on an account, because in order to do this you encrypt the RPC call using your current password.
  User Action: Specify the correct password.

rpc_s_fault_no_client_stub, fault client stub not linked into application

• Explanation: A server stub or application manager routine attempted to make a remote procedure call, but the client stub module for the corresponding IDL interface was not linked into the application.
  User Action: Relink the application, including the relevant client stub module.

rpc_s_no_memory, no memory for RPC runtime

• Explanation: The RPC runtime is unable to allocate heap storage, or a fixed buffer supplied to IDL Encoding Services was not large enough.
  User Action: If the failure is induced by overuse of underlying system resources (for example, address space or swap space), reduce the application's direct use of these resources if possible. Or, use a larger buffer when calling IDL Encoding Services.

rpc_s_no_server_stub, server stub not linked into application

• Explanation: A client stub or client application routine invoked a function that causes the client to be set up as a server of a particular IDL interface, but the server stub module for the IDL interface was not linked into the application.
  User Action: Relink the application, including the relevant server stub module.

rpc_s_stub_protocol_error, stub or runtime protocol error

• Explanation: The client or server stubs were generated from inconsistent IDL files, and the receiver of RPC data expected more data than the sender transmitted. This error is reported by the IDL runtime support.
  User Action: Recompile the application. Be sure to compile the client and server stubs with the same version of the IDL compiler.

rpc_s_tsyntaxes_unsupported, transfer syntaxes unsupported

• Explanation: The transfer syntax of the encoding operation is not supported by the decoding operation.
  User Action: Use supported transfer syntaxes.

rpc_s_unknown_if, unknown interface

• Explanation: A client application tried to make a remote call using an interface that the server being called does not support. This condition also includes the binding, specifying a server that does not support the RPC management service (the rpc_mgmt_* routines). This situation can occur if a DCE client is trying to make a rpc_mgmt_* call to an NCS Version 1.5.1 server. Or, the decoding operation specified to IDL Encoding Services is not in the interface specified in encoded data.
  User Action: The client may have bound to an inappropriate server; rebind the client to another server. Or, modify the application code to use the correct decoding call.

rpc_s_ss_bad_buffer, buffer not usable by IDL Encoding Services

• Explanation: A buffer handed to IDL Encoding Services is not 8-byte aligned or is not a multiple of 8 bytes.
  User Action: Modify the application code so that the buffer is aligned on an 8-byte boundary and is a multiple of 8 bytes long.

rpc_s_ss_bad_es_action, action cannot be performed by IDL Encoding Services

• Explanation: Either the action requested in the handle being used is inconsistent with what is specified in the ACF, or idl_es_inq_encoding_id has been called with an encoding handle which has not yet been used for any operation.
  User Action: In the first case, recompile the stubs using a modified ACF. In the second case, modify the application code so that it does not make this call.

rpc_s_ss_codeset_conv_error, codeset conversion error

• Explanation: A server stub or application manager routine received an error status from a codeset conversion routine.
  User Action: Invalid data is being converted or the user-supplied conversion routine is incorrect.

rpc_s_ss_incompatible_codesets, conversion between codesets not possible

• Explanation: This value is used by International Character codeset conversion routines to indicate that conversion between the network and local codesets is not possible.
  User Action: Application dependent.

rpc_s_ss_wrong_es_version, wrong version of IDL Encoding Services

• Explanation: The decoding operation is inconsistent with the version of software used to create the encoding.
  User Action: Upgrade the installed version of DCE to one that supports the version of IDL Encoding Services specified in the encoded data.

rpc_s_unknown_reject, request rejected on the server for an unknown reason

• Explanation: A server stub or application rejected an RPC request due to some unknown error. This usually indicates an application error or a resource problem on the server system.
  User Action: Fix the Application.