Re: 7.12 engine crashes on SCO Openserver 5
Posted in 1996
In article <01bb990a$b12a9060$2e014ac1@ping4523>, Koen Van der Elst
<Koen.VanderElst@ping.be> writes
>I have three Compaq Machines running SCO Openserver 5 release 5.00b
>
>Compaq ProSignia, 64 Mb, Informix 7.12 UC1 development
>Compaq ProLiant 4500, dual 133 Mhz Pentium, 64 Mb, 7.12 UC2 run-time
>Compaq ProLiant 5000, dual 166Mhz Pentium Pro, 128 Mb, 7.12 UC2 run-time
>
>In four days time al three engines crashed with the same error in the
>online.log file. A problem with shared memory followed by bad magic
>numbers, problems with a memory allocation in a certain C - source and then
>boom. Engine gone. DB fucked up. Nice.
>This happend on al 3 servers.
>It happend on the ProLiant while performing a alter table using dbaccess
>and on the ProSignia while performing a select. All tables accessed during
>the crash are FUBAR. Oncheck reports constraint problems and
>index-corruption.
>Informix Belgium informed me that this could be a bug in release 7.12,
>sometimes experienced on SCO and HP-UX platforms.
>
>Anybody experienced the same problems ???
>
>I will post the online.log files if anybody would like to examine them.
Yes please/
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David Williams