Re: Online 7.13 error 25588

Mark Hall <hallmark@compassnet.com> wrote: >What is this error and what are the possible causes? From finderr: -25588 The appl process cannot connect to OnLine server server- name. This error can be caused by an error in the application. Check your CONNECT statement and the sqlhosts file. The error can also be caused by a system failure. If no immediate cause can be found for the failure, note the circumstances and contact your OnLine database administrator for assistance. The shared memory communication subsystem is down or not functioning. Contact the OnLine database administrator to report the problem. ________________________________________________________________ Without more detail on your problem, I can't be too much help, but I know of at least one cause: My company has an application that relies on its own shared memory segments, as well as using the shared memory interface to the Informix engine. One portion of our application was getting this error when our $INFORMIXSERVER was set use the shared memory connection, but not when it used the tlitcp connection. The problem was that the default address for Informix to attach shared memory to a process was very near where we attached our application segments, and the collision caused the above -25588 error. Once we reset the $INFORMIXSHMBASE var to point to a safer spot, everything was fine. If shared memory does not seem to be the problem, check your environment and configuration ($INFORMIXSERVER, $ONCONFIG, and your sqlhosts). If it _may_ be shared memory, then read up on INFORMIXSHMBASE, and the SHMBASE parm in your onconfig file. Good luck. ___________________________________ Erik Jones || erik@anasazi.com Tech Lead in charge of Rigged Demos