Re: Bad Chunk

Hi try ipcs to get a listing of current shared memory segments and ipcrm to remove any which exist. then do an oninit again and you (should/will) be ok.. hope this helps Manoj Narayanankutty wrote: > Hi, > > When I am trying to initialize the shared memmory using oninit -s. I > get the following message in the online.log: > > shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 526a4801: shared memory already exists > 00:11:21 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment > > 00:11:38 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 526a4801: shared memory already> exists > 00:11:38 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment> > Also warnings for bad primary chunk for 2 dbspaces comes in my standard > output. Inspite of these I can bring the databse to online mode, but > could not > do any query operation to any of the databases residing on the > corrupted chunks.I don t remember doing anything, extraordinary to > corrupt the chunks. > I would appreciate if some one can give me a reason for this > occurence. > > Thanks > Manoj -- John Horton DBA Cognito (Informix on Linux) john.horton@cognito.co.uk