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RE: Upgrade to 10 Failed

Posted By: Jarratt, Linwood B.
Date: Wednesday, 25 January 2006, at 12:12 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Upgrade to 10 Failed (Obnoxio The Clown)

oninit permissions are as follows:

-rwsr-sr-- 1 root informix 13193542 Jan 23 06:33 oninit

The install was run as root, but oninit was being run as informix.

Lennie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org]On Behalf Of
> Obnoxio The....
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:03 AM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrade to 10 Failed [6271]
>
>
>
> Jarratt, Li.... said:
> >
> >
> > I am attempting to upgrade IDS 9.4.UC7 to IDS 10.0.UC4 on
> RedHat Linux.
> > Here are the steps I performed:
> >
> > Backed up 9.4 database
> > Shutdown Instance
> > Installed IDS 10 into a seperate directory
> > Updated the IDS 10 onconfig file with the correct
> paramaters from my 9.4
> > instance.
> > Moved the link so informix now looked at IDS directories
> > Started Instance.
> >
> > It fails with the following error (from online.log):
> >
> > Mon Jan 23 21:12:17 2006
> >
> > 21:12:17 Warning: ONCONFIG dump directory (DUMPDIR)
> '/ifxbak/dumps' has
> > insecure permissions
> > 21:12:17 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG =
> > '/ifxapp/informix/etc/alarmprogram.sh'
> > 21:12:17 Booting Language <c> from module <>
> > 21:12:17 Loading Module <CNULL>
> > 21:12:17 Booting Language <builtin> from module <>
> > 21:12:17 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL>
> > 21:12:22 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off)
> > 21:12:23 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC4
> Software Serial
> > Number AAA#B000000
> > 21:12:23 Conversion from version 9.40 Started
> > 21:12:23 The chunk '/ifxdbsys/dbspace/links/rootdbs' must
> have READ/WRITE
> > permissions for owner and group (660).
> >
> > 21:12:23 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Stopped.
> >
> > 21:12:23 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed
> all/correct segments
> >
> > I changed the root dbspace permissions to 660 from 666. I
> still received
> > the same error. All my dbspaces are 2 GB cooked files. Each
> one has a
> > symbolic link pointing to the real file as follows:
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 informix informix 20 Nov 23 14:34 rootdbs ->
> > .../files/rootdbs.000
> > -rw-rw---- 1 informix informix 2097152000 Jan 25 10:18 rootdbs.000
> >
> > What am I missing or what should I try next?
>
> I think your binaries probably don't have the correct
> permissions. oninit
> specifically.
>
> --
> Bye now,
> Obnoxio
>
> "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule"
> - Coluche
>
> did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all
> columns in a table except the primary key could/should be
> nullable. this
> has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a
> child record
> and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert
> into the parent
> table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila,
> relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit
> controversial among modellers.
>
> --r937, dbforums.com
>
>
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Messages In This Thread

• Upgrade to 10 Failed
  Jarratt, Linwood B. -- Wednesday, 25 January 2006, at 12:00 p.m.
  • Re: Upgrade to 10 Failed
    Obnoxio The Clown -- Wednesday, 25 January 2006, at 12:02 p.m.
    • RE: Upgrade to 10 Failed
      Robert Roussey\(MIS\) -- Wednesday, 25 January 2006, at 12:09 p.m.
    • RE: Upgrade to 10 Failed
      Jarratt, Linwood B. -- Wednesday, 25 January 2006, at 12:12 p.m.
  • RE: Upgrade to 10 Failed
    Stuart Stephens -- Wednesday, 25 January 2006, at 12:13 p.m.
    • RE: Upgrade to 10 Failed
      Jarratt, Linwood B. -- Wednesday, 25 January 2006, at 12:18 p.m.
      • RE: Upgrade to 10 Failed
        Robert Roussey\(MIS\) -- Wednesday, 25 January 2006, at 12:28 p.m.
  • Re: Upgrade to 10 Failed
    GZ LETSGO -- Thursday, 28 May 2009, at 1:24 p.m.

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