Re: Error in shared memory initialization

In article <344BD31F.6303@bloomberg.com>, "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.com> writes >mukta mohindra wrote: >> >> I initialized my online 7.2 on Solaris 2.5.1. Then I tried to add >> dbtempspace and logical logs. Now when I do oninit it gives me the error >> >> oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization >> The online log says >> 10:16:26 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = >> '/usr/informix/etc/alarm.sh' >> 10:16:28 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) >> 10:16:28 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped. >> 10:16:29 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct>> segments > >Either the Online engine is still up or when you brought it down the >shared memory segments were not removed. First try 'onmode -ky' as root >even if the engine is down this will usually remove any memory segments >left around. You can check with: 'ipcs|fgrep informix'. If memory or If online was started as root, the segments may be owned by root. Online 5 they were owned by informix but I have seen them owned by root under online 7. >semaphore segments are still around use ipcrm, as root, to remove them. >Note that if you get an error of the form 'segment does not exist' but >it shows up in ipcs that means that the segment has indeed been removed >but some application (dbaccess etc) is still running attached to the >shared memory segment. Killing the remaining applications will free >the segment so it no longer shows up in the reports. > >Last resort, reboot. > >Art S. Kagel -- David Williams