ontape quits with error

Hello, we are just facing a problem of maybe ontape or something else: we have two servers, one on a hpux11 system another on a SUSe linux both IDS version 10.00. with dbaccess on linux I transfer a complete database from hpux. After a while the logs run full and the transfer stops and this morning I tried to backup the logs with ontape. Unfortunately ontape quits with the following error: ~> ontape -s 08:38:25 shmat: [22]: operating system error 08:38:25 Client could not attach server shared memory segment, use IFX_XFER_SHMBASE. Server is in an incompatible state or user authentication failed. Program over. There is no way to continue whatever action: server will not stop, backup does not work, linux does not shutdown. The only way was to push the OFF button and after restart and backing up logical logs with ontape IDS is there again. online.log only says: Logical Log Files are Full -- Backup is Needed what happened? Richard

Hi, We once had a similar problem with 9.40 (or 9.30, I cannot remember). If you are using (as I almost expect) a 32bit release on Linux, the initial shared memory size might be the problem (was in our case). We found out that an initial shared memory segment > 800 MB lead to the inability to run ontape. We simply set SHMVIRTSIZE = 800000 and SHMADD to 100000 (or higher, as you need). Note that our experience was on a different platform (Solaris 9, SPARC), but the effect sounds like same problem. Its worth a try. Marcus -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of RICHARD HEGEWALD Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 9:12 AM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: ontape quits with error [8053] Hello, we are just facing a problem of maybe ontape or something else: we have two servers, one on a hpux11 system another on a SUSe linux both IDS version 10.00. with dbaccess on linux I transfer a complete database from hpux. After a while the logs run full and the transfer stops and this morning I tried to backup the logs with ontape. Unfortunately ontape quits with the following error: ~> ontape -s 08:38:25 shmat: [22]: operating system error 08:38:25 Client could not attach server shared memory segment, use IFX_XFER_SHMBASE. Server is in an incompatible state or user authentication failed. Program over. There is no way to continue whatever action: server will not stop, backup does not work, linux does not shutdown. The only way was to push the OFF button and after restart and backing up logical logs with ontape IDS is there again. online.log only says: Logical Log Files are Full -- Backup is Needed what happened? Richard **************************************************************************** *** Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Thanks for your fast response, I detected, that we are using a 32bit IDS on a 64-bit linux platform. I first install the 64-bit version and then I'll see. Richard