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bad primary chunk

Posted in 1999

Topics: Backup & Restore, Storage & Space Management, Server Administration, Platform-Specific Issues

Maria Wilson — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I am trying to do a test cold restore of a 9.14 Informix engine on Solaris 7 to another Solaris 7 test machine. using ontape -r I can initalize the test engine fine - then onmode -ky and start the cold restore. I get the info about dbspaces and chunks as expected - then y for continue - then I get - -- Bad Primary Chunk '/dev/a/slice1'. oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization can someone help? Not sure what is happening...... thanks, Maria ---------------------------------------------------------------- Maria L. Wilson 757.766.8265 757.766.2571(fax) Computer Sciences Corporation NASA Langley Research Center m.l.wilson@larc.nasa.gov Hampton, VA 23666 http://www.larc.nasa.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Carlson@WHSmith — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Here are some questions: 1. Does the chunk exist? 2. What are the read / write permissions? 3. Who owns it? 3. Is the disk itself bad? Can you write to it and read from it?? John Carlson Informix DBA WHSmith USA Maria Wilson wrote: > > I am trying to do a test cold restore of a 9.14 Informix engine on > Solaris 7 to another Solaris 7 test machine. > using ontape -r > I can initalize the test engine fine - then onmode -ky and start the > cold restore. > I get the info about dbspaces and chunks as expected - then y for > continue - > then I get - > -- > Bad Primary Chunk '/dev/a/slice1'. > oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization > > can someone help? Not sure what is happening...... > > thanks, Maria > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Maria L. Wilson 757.766.8265 757.766.2571(fax) > Computer Sciences Corporation > NASA Langley Research Center m.l.wilson@larc.nasa.gov > Hampton, VA 23666 http://www.larc.nasa.gov > ----------------------------------------------------------------

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