Re: oninit -i refuses to work

> We had an existing database and wanted to drop it. > We shut down the working database and took it offline. > > We just tried oninit -i and got the response Boy, I hope this is just a communication problem... :-) If you want to drop a database, you can just go into DBACCESS and say Database|Drop. If you do an oninit -i, it completely reinitialises the entire OnLine instance, which will trash *all* the databases in your instance. > oninit: Not enough room for ROOT dbspace. > Fatal error initializing shared memory.> > Why? And how can we do oninit -i? But assuming you actually want to destroy your entire OnLine installation, make sure that all shared memory has actually been removed. You can check this by doing an onmode -ky and then checking with ipcs. If ipcs shows that there is still shared memory in use, use ipcrm to remove it. The minimum size for your rootdbs is generally determined by the size of the logical and physical logs and the sysmaster database. Could you possibly provide us with your onconfig file and machine size, # of CPUs, OS version and exact OnLine version? HTH. -- Ciao, Billy +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Billy Wheeler Chief Cook and Bottlewasher The West Solutions Group | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | (E) billy@west.co.za (U) http://www.west.co.za/billy.html | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Microsoft Word 6.0a to your mother .... | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+