Re: oninit startup failure on XP embedded [solved]

Thanks for sharing the solution to this problem. IDS is not tested on XP Embedded - it's good to know that it works with the small tweak you mention. If anyone decides to add Windows information to the Informix FAQ, this would be a useful thing to mention.. Guy ----- Original Message ---- From: "mfld@tele2.fr" <mfld@tele2.fr> To: informix-list@iiug.org Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:30:30 AM Subject: Re: oninit startup failure on XP embedded [solved] Hello all, Finally, I succeeded into fixing the problem :-) I ran the oninit.exe program (with -iyv args) under the Visual MSVC debugger and walked into the machine code to find the exact location of the error. The program was failing on a CreateFileA ("nul", ...) system call while initializing the shared memory (during or just after the internal _mtinit() function). I added the NULL device (null.sys) to my XP embedded and it then worked fine. By the way, I noticed that the error message ""create_vp : cannot allocate semaphore" is generated just after the return from CreateFileA(), and that this message is not meaningful to help the Informix admin to diagnose the problem :-( ! Should rather be : "cannot open NUL file". Thanks to the guys who tried to help me, I learnt many things through this case and the clues they gave me. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index