I've found this information out today.
Question
unable to load mtce overlays getting ovl 429
Answer
TRYING TO LOAD A MTCE OVERLAY
Message of " background session 0 cannot be aborted" ovl429
IF YOU LOG OUT AND SEE WHAT BGD IS RUNNING IN OUR EXAMPLE
bgd showed ld 47 running INI did not cure needed SYSLOAD
QUESTION....WHAT IS LD 47?
LD 47 IS THE MAX HSL DIAGNOSTIC PROGRAM THAT WE CANNOT INVOKE BUT OBVIOUSLY RUNS WHEN PROBLEMS DETECTED ON MAX HSL GIVES OUT THE AMH ERRORS
THIS SHOULD BE QUITE INSTANT
BUT IN CASE REPORTED THE S/W APPEARED TO BE STUCK IN 47
INI DID NOT CLEAR BUT SYSLOAD DID
Another thing is to turn "Multi User" from ON to
OFF in LD 17 under OVLY & to remove
30 from DROL.
I had to do this myself on a Option 81 Rlse 25.40b two days ago!. The system would not allow me to enter any Mntce overlay such as LD 43. Even the EDD that the switch did after a reboot stopped halfway down the screen. I had to to a warm start & then make the 2 changes in LD 17 as listed above, followed by a "EDD" in LD 43.
I then did another reboot to make sure that the background routines stopped. It did!.
All the best
Firebird Scrambler
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