Fatal error in shared memory creation

I tried installing Informix Workgroup Server 7.30TC8 on Sun Solaris 7. i have made a user and group informix, set the path and informixdir-var, unpacked and installed the informix files, changed the onconfig (rootpath, servernum, dbservername) but when i try to initialize the server with oninit, i just get: Fatal error in shared memory creation. I have checked the settings with the onmonitor program, but everything is alright. Any idea what i made wrong or forgot?

Hans-Dieter Tewes wrote: > I tried installing Informix Workgroup Server 7.30TC8 on Sun Solaris 7. > i have made a user and group informix, set the path and informixdir-var, > unpacked and installed the informix files, changed the onconfig > (rootpath, servernum, dbservername) but when i try to initialize the > server with oninit, i just get: Fatal error in shared memory creation. I > have checked the settings with the onmonitor program, but everything is > alright. > Any idea what i made wrong or forgot? Check your $INFORMIXDIR/release/....... directory. There you'll find ONLINE_ver.release file with all platform specific settings. Dragan Jurkovic MMR (Canada) Inc.

In article <37B29175.2FF86624@Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de>, Hans-Dieter Tewes <Hans-Dieter.Tewes@Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de> wrote: > I tried installing Informix Workgroup Server 7.30TC8 on Sun Solaris 7. > i have made a user and group informix, set the path and informixdir- var, > unpacked and installed the informix files, changed the onconfig > (rootpath, servernum, dbservername) but when i try to initialize the > server with oninit, i just get: Fatal error in shared memory creation. I > have checked the settings with the onmonitor program, but everything is > alright. > Any idea what i made wrong or forgot? > Check your release notes for possible changes in operating system params. Also post your message log, ONCONFIG and 'oninit -ivy' output for detailed review. -- With best regards, Yuri Dovgart, SAP R/3, Informix consultant, "Telecominvest" company. E-mail y_dovgart@tci.ukrtel.net ICQ 39284285 Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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I have found the error with the help of informix-support, i have misunderstood the release notes and so i forgot some parameter in /etc/system. Thanks for your help Hans-Dieter Tewes