Re: initializing shared memory

Posted in 1996

"Malcolm Weallans" — Sun, 22 Sep 1996 22:26:48 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> Gene Terry Sanford <tsanford@csti-md.com> wrote: > > :We are runnning informix 4.1 on SCO OpenSever 5.02. > :When we run tbinit to initialize shared memory we get > :the following error: > > : tbinit: shmat[EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address > : illegal using 0x80480000, needs 0x80000000 > : tbinit: fatal error in shared memory creation. > > :Our tbconfig file has SHMBASE = 0x80400000 > :Anyone have any idea what the problem is. It sounds like the > :shared memory base address for SCO needs to be changed. Have you tried modifying SHMBASE to Ox80000000? I have installed a number of SCO UNIX systems at different levels and found that to be necessary. But don't ask me why? Malcolm Weallans Online Database Consultancy Phone 01628-72154 Fax 01628-37463 CIX - onlinedbc