Re: IIUG-IDS-9-4-UC2-linux Problems

Ben Thompson wrote: > Thomas Ronayne wrote: > >> With thanks to Ben and Andreas, things have installed but oninit won't >> start. No error messages, but no start and no shared memory allocated >> (semaphores, yes, but no attached shared memory). >> >> I went through onconfig and sqlhosts and edited what seemed to need >> editing pretty much the same as the 7.30.UC5 files. I cannot find a >> "installing 9.40 on Linux" document anywhere, so I'm kind of working >> in the dark, here -- is there a guide somewhere? >> >> The online.log shows >> >> Thu Mar 31 07:37:19 2005 >> >> 07:37:19 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = >> '/opt/informix/etc/alarmprogram.sh' >> 07:37:19 Booting Language <c> from module <> >> 07:37:19 Loading Module <CNULL> >> 07:37:19 Booting Language <builtin> from module <> >> 07:37:19 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL> >> 07:38:42 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started. >> >> but there's no server running. > > > Check your settings of SHMBASE, SHMVIRTSIZE, SHMADD and BUFFERS in your > onconfig. Sensible values just to get you running are: > > BUFFERS 20000 > SHMBASE 0x10000000L > SHMVIRTSIZE 73536 > SHMADD 32768> > If this doesn't work I would try and see if you can get the server up > with a new rootdbs completely separate from anything you're using now, > the default onconfig with perhaps some adjustments to point to the right > log files, your new rootdbs and anything else you think appropriate. > Don't use a 7.30 onconfig for a 9.40 server. Initialise the server with > "oninit -ivy" and see what you get. What displays on the console when > you initialise the server? > > Ben. No idea if this is the problem, but I think I had some issue in the past where /etc/hosts combined a line for localhost with the proper host name. It should have two lines: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.2.100 fubar I think it was old Suse 9 that caused me grief. HTH Michael (IDS 10 on Suse SLES 9.0 - upgraded from 9.40)