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RE: IDS11 startup problems

Posted By: Sebastian, Norma J.
Date: Friday, 22 February 2008, at 6:01 p.m.

In Response To: IDS11 startup problems (DENIS DIDEROT)

Are you getting anything in your o/s system messages? How about in
'/usr/local/ids/tmp'? The 'oninit -yv' output shows your informix
DUMPDIR in onconfig is set to '/usr/informix/tmp' which the output says
does not exist so it is using '/usr/local/ids/tmp' as DUMPDIR. Maybe
there is something in that dir that would help?

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-----Original Message-----
From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of
DENIS DIDEROT
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 4:02 PM
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: IDS11 startup problems [11402]

Hi,=20
I have been testing IDS 11 for a few days and I am enjoying its speed
and=20
other performance factors, especially since my organization still uses=20
Standard Engine 7.24 but with a firm intention to upgrade to IDS 11
within a=20
couple of months.=20
However, I have a big issue that I don't know how to get around:=20
Whenever there is power loss or the system is shut down abnormally, the
IDS=20
server cannot recover from that and everytime I have to re-install
everything=20
(actually delete the $INFORMIXDIR and then re-install). Obviously this
would=20
be unacceptable if the server was in production and contained real data.

Here are a couple of things that can give the experts out there a
starting=20
point.=20

1) My OS is Redhat EL4 (1 processor, 512 Mb )=20

2) My machine's name is gage, $INFORMIXSERVER =3D "ksems"=20

3) [root@gage ~]# oninit -yv=20
Your evaluation license will expire on 2008-08-11 00:00:00=20
Checking group membership to determine server run mode...succeeded=20
Reading configuration file
'/usr/local/ids/etc/onconfig.ksems'...succeeded=20
Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs...succeeded=20
Creating infos file "/usr/local/ids/etc/.infos.ksems"...succeeded=20
Linking conf file "/usr/local/ids/etc/.conf.ksems"...succeeded=20
Writing to infos file...succeeded=20
Checking config parameters...Invalid value of DUMPDIR
'/usr/informix/tmp' in=20
onconfig file. Setting it to default value=20
'/usr/local/ids/tmp'...succeeded=20
Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded=20
Creating resident pool 896 kbytes...succeeded=20
Allocating 2016 kbytes for buffer pool of 2K page size...succeeded=20
Initializing rhead structure...succeeded=20
Initializing ASF...succeeded=20
Initializing Dictionary Cache and SPL Routine Cache...succeeded=20
Bringing up ADM VP...[root@gage ~]#=20

4) [root@gage ~]# onstat -=20
Your evaluation license will expire on 2008-08-11 00:00:00=20
*** WARNING: IBM Informix Dynamic Server is no longer running. ***=20

*** WARNING: IBM Informix Dynamic Server is no longer running. ***=20

5) [root@gage ~]# onmode -ky=20
Your evaluation license will expire on 2008-08-11 00:00:00=20
onmode: Shutdown of the database server shall be done by killing=20

the database server processes, as the database server is=20

in Initialization mode and cannot accept onmode commands.=20
5) [root@gage ~]# oninit -i=20
Your evaluation license will expire on 2008-08-11 00:00:00=20

This action will initialize IBM Informix Dynamic Server;=20
any existing IBM Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be
accessible -=20
Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y=20
oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation=20

So guys, I don't know what to do to bring this server backup without=20
re-installing.=20
Thanks,=20
JC.=20
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Messages In This Thread

• IDS11 startup problems
  DENIS DIDEROT -- Friday, 22 February 2008, at 5:01 p.m.
  • Re: IDS11 startup problems
    Madison Pruet -- Friday, 22 February 2008, at 5:19 p.m.
    • Re: IDS11 startup problems
      DENIS DIDEROT -- Monday, 25 February 2008, at 3:06 p.m.
      • RE: IDS11 startup problems
        Robert Roussey(IT) -- Monday, 25 February 2008, at 4:18 p.m.
        • Re: RE: IDS11 startup problems
          DENIS DIDEROT -- Monday, 25 February 2008, at 4:48 p.m.
  • RE: IDS11 startup problems
    Sebastian, Norma J. -- Friday, 22 February 2008, at 6:01 p.m.
    • Re: RE: IDS11 startup problems
      DENIS DIDEROT -- Monday, 25 February 2008, at 3:07 p.m.
  • RE: IDS11 startup problems
    Alexey Sonkin -- Friday, 22 February 2008, at 7:09 p.m.
    • Re: RE: IDS11 startup problems
      DENIS DIDEROT -- Monday, 25 February 2008, at 3:04 p.m.

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