Informix startup (oninit) problem
Posted in 1997
I get the following errors when trying to do an "oninit -i" to
bring up the informix instance for the first time.
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oninit: Cannot open chunk ''. errno = 2
oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization
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My onconfig.std looks as follows:
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#**************************************************************************
#
# INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC.
#
# Title: onconfig.std
# Description: INFORMIX-OnLine Configuration Parameters
#
#**************************************************************************
# Root Dbspace Configuration
ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name
ROOTPATH /informix/devices # Path fordevice containing root dbspace
ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device
(Kbytes)
ROOTSIZE 120000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes)
# Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters
MIRROR 0 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0)
MIRRORPATH # Path for device containing mirroredroot
MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes)
# Physical Log Configuration
PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log
PHYSFILE 50000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes)
# Logical Log Configuration
LOGFILES 4 # Number of logical log files
LOGSIZE 1000 # Logical log size (Kbytes)
# Diagnostics
MSGPATH /informix/onlineds.log # System message log file path
CONSOLE /dev/console # System console message path
ALARMPROGRAM # Alarm program path
# System Archive Tape Device
TAPEDEV /dev/null # Tape device path
TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes)
TAPESIZE 10240 # Maximum amount of data to put on
tape (Kbytes)
# Log Archive Tape Device
LTAPEDEV /dev/null # Log tape device path
LTAPEBLK 16 # Log tape block size (Kbytes)
LTAPESIZE 10240 # Max amount of data to put on log
tape (Kbytes)
# Optical
STAGEBLOB # INFORMIX-OnLine/Optical staging area
# System Configuration
SERVERNUM 1 # Unique id corresponding to a OnLineinstance
DBSERVERNAME onlineds # name of default database server
DBSERVERALIASES # List of alternate dbservernames
NETTYPE # Configure poll thread(s) for nettype
DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # Max time to wait of lock indistributed env.
RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No =
0)
MULTIPROCESSOR 0 # 0 for single-processor, 1 formulti-processor
NUMCPUVPS 1 # Number of user (cpu) vps
SINGLE_CPU_VP 0 # If non-zero, limit number of cpu vpsto one
NOAGE 0 # Process aging
AFF_SPROC 0 # Affinity start processor
AFF_NPROCS 0 # Affinity number of processors
# Shared Memory Parameters
LOCKS 2000 # Maximum number of locks
BUFFERS 200 # Maximum number of shared buffers
NUMAIOVPS 3 # Number of IO vps
PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes)
LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)LOGSMAX 6 # Maximum number of logical log files
CLEANERS 1 # Number of buffer cleaner processes
SHMBASE 0x0A000000L # Shared memory base address
SHMVIRTSIZE 32000 # initial virtual shared memorysegment size
SHMADD 8192 # Size of new shared memory segments
(Kbytes)
SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes).
0=>unlimited
CKPTINTVL 300 # Check point interval (in sec)
LRUS 8 # Number of LRU queues
LRU_MAX_DIRTY 3 # LRU percent dirty begin cleaninglimit
LRU_MIN_DIRTY 1 # LRU percent dirty end cleaning limit
LTXHWM 40 # Long transaction high water markpercentage
LTXEHWM 50 # Long transaction high water mark
(exclusive)
TXTIMEOUT 300 # Transaction timeout (in sec)
STACKSIZE 32 # Stack size (Kbytes)
# System Page Size
# BUFFSIZE - OnLine no longer supports this configuration parameter.
# To determine the page size used by OnLine on your
platform
# see the last line of output from the command, 'onstat
-b'.
# Recovery Variables
# OFF_RECVRY_THREADS:
# Number of parallel worker threads during fast recovery or an offline
restore.
# ON_RECVRY_THREADS:
# Number of parallel worker threads during an online restore.
OFF_RECVRY_THREADS 10 # Default number of offline workerthreads
ON_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of online workerthreads
# Data Replication Variables
# DRAUTO: 0 manual, 1 retain type, 2 reverse type
DRAUTO 0 # DR automatic switchover
DRINTERVAL 30 # DR max time between DR buffer
flushes (in sec)
DRTIMEOUT 30 # DR network timeout (in sec)
DRLOSTFOUND /informix/etc/dr.lostfound # DR lost+found filepath
# Backup/Restore variables
BAR_ACT_LOG /tmp/bar_act.log
BAR_MAX_BACKUP 0
BAR_RETRY 1
BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT 10
BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE 31
# Read Ahead Variables
RA_PAGES # Number of pages to attempt to readahead
RA_THRESHOLD # Number of pages left before nextgroup
# DBSPACETEMP:
# OnLine equivalent of DBTEMP for SE. This is the list of dbspaces
# that the OnLine SQL Engine will use to create temp tables etc.
# If specified it must be a colon separated list of dbspaces that
exist
# when the OnLine system is brought online. If not specified, or if
# all dbspaces specified are invalid, various ad hoc queries will
create
# temporary files in /tmp instead.
DBSPACETEMP rootdb # default temp dbspaces
# DUMP*:
# The following parameters control the type of diagnostics information
which
# is preserved when an unanticipated error condition (assertion
failure) occurs
# during OnLine operations.
# For DUMPSHMEM, DUMPGCORE and DUMPCORE 1 means Yes, 0 means No.
DUMPDIR /tmp # Preserve diagnostics in thisdirectory
DUMPSHMEM 1 # Dump a copy of shared memory
DUMPGCORE 0 # Dump a core image using 'gcore'
DUMPCORE 0 # Dump a core image (Warning:thisaborts OnLine)
DUMPCNT 1 # Number of shared memory or gcoredumps for
# a single user's session
FILLFACTOR 90 # Fill factor for building indexes
# method for OnLine to use when determining current time
USEOSTIME 0 # 0: use internal time(fast), 1: get time from
OS(slow)
# Parallel Database Queries (pdq)
MAX_PDQPRIORITY 100 # Maximum allowed pdqpriority
DS_MAX_QUERIES # Maximum number of decision support queries
DS_TOTAL_MEMORY # Decision support memory (Kbytes)
DS_MAX_SCANS 1048576 # Maximum number of decision support scans
DATASKIP # List of dbspaces to skip
# OPTCOMPIND
# 0 => Nested loop joins will be preferred (where
# possible) over sortmerge joins and hash joins.
# 1 => If the transaction isolation mode is not
# "repeatable read", optimizer behaves as in (2)
# below. Otherwise it behaves as in (0) above.
# 2 => Use costs regardless of the transaction isolation
# mode. Nested loop joins are not necessarily
#