On-line engine startup failure

We're trying to install the on-line engine on a new machine. I think we've done everything right in terms of setting environmental variables and tbconfig parameters and slicing and dicing of the hard disk. But we keep on getting the following error when running tbinit or tbmonitor. segralgh: [~] 128> tbinit -s tbinit: fatal error in shared memory initialization segralgh: [~] 129> Pertinent info follows: segralgh: [~] 129> ls -al /dev/rinformix total 40 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 80 Dec 4 15:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 16 root sys 14640 Dec 5 09:34 ../ crw-rw---- 2 informix informix 116, 34 Dec 4 17:19 online.logsdbs crw-rw---- 2 informix informix 116, 33 Dec 2 13:21 online.rootdb2 crw-rw---- 2 informix informix 116, 17 Dec 4 17:19 online.rootdbs INFORMIXDIR=/usr/local/informix4.1 PATH=/usr/local/informix4.1/bin:.:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/bin/X11:/usr/local/xroff/bin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/local/Wingz:/usr/lo cal/frame2.1/bin:/usr/local/mlink:/usr/local/informix4.1/bin SQLEXEC=/usr/local/informix4.1/lib/sqlturbo TBCONFIG=tbconfig.mcp #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: tbconfig.mcp # Sccsid: @(#)tbconfig.mcp 7.2 11/20/90 11:06:55 # Description: INFORMIX-OnLine Configuration Parameters # #************************************************************************** # Root Dbspace Configuration ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace nameROOTPATH /dev/rinformix/online.rootdbs # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 50000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes) # Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters MIRROR 0 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) MIRRORPATH # Path for device containing mirrored root MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes) # Physical Log Configuration PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log PHYSFILE 10000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes) # Logical Log Configuration LOGFILES 5 # Number of logical log files LOGSIZE 10000 # Logical log size (Kbytes) # Message Files MSGPATH /usr/local/informix4.1/etc/turbolog.mcp # System message log fil e path CONSOLE /dev/console # System console message path # System Archive Tape Device #TAPEDEV /export/seg23/data01/informix/dbbackup.mcp TAPEDEV /dev/null # Tape device path TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TAPESIZE 1000000 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes) # Log Archive Tape Device LTAPEDEV /dev/null # Log tape device path LTAPEBLK 16 # Log tape block size (Bytes) LTAPESIZE 1000000 # Max amount of data to put on log tape (Kbytes) # System Configuration SERVERNUM 0 # Unique id corresponding to an OnLine instanceSERVERNAME segralgh # DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # max time to wait of lock in distributed env. RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) # Shared Memory Parameters USERS 100 # Maximum number of concurrent users (processes) LOCKS 10000 # Maximum number of locks BUFFERS 1900 # Maximum number of shared buffersTBLSPACES 5000 # Maximum number of open tblspaces CHUNKS 12 # Maximum number of chunks DBSPACES 8 # Maximum number of dbspaces PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes) LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)LOGSMAX 10 # Maximum number of logical log files CLEANERS 1 # Number of buffer cleaner processes SHMBASE 0x800000 # Shared memory base address CKPTINTVL 300 # Check point interval (in sec) # System Page Size BUFFSIZE 2048 # Page size (do not change!) We have one machine already running with the above parameters. Does anyone have any ideas? -- o&o --- Will hack code for food --- :\\] --- Let your life proceed by its own design --- "Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult" -- HAL 9000 Hal A. Wigoda hwigoda@seg7.mnc.mot.com

Is the machine a sparc running sunos 4.1.2? If so, then you need to force shared memory to be resident. Took me ages to work that one out :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Lacey, IS Engineering Manager, The Bishop's Manor, Howden, UK. Tel: +44 430 432480 Fax: +44 430 432450 "There's no reason why hundreds of people in California should know the future any better than ten people based in Yorkshire." - Charles Cecil, MD of Revolution Software