Re: OnLine 7.1 stuck in recovery

Rick Clark <kiwi@imagepro.com> wrote: >Robin Cyrus <76756.3641@CompuServe.COM> wrote: >>I'll second that. That happened to me! And I HAD to call >>INFORMIX. They logged in and ran their SECRET programs and all >>was fine.... >> >>r.c. During an INFORMIX admin class, I attempted to restore a 7.1 engine. It would hang if I did not restore the logical logs, just the archive. It was fine when I restored the archive and logs. This would lead me to believe that it is looking for a checkpoint unsuccessfully. >The same problem occurs frequently for crashed Online 5.X engines. >The "SECRET" utility that Informix uses to "free" such hangs was called >"tbzero". tbinit ( now oninit ) would hang while in fast recovery mode >looking for the last checkpoint entry in the logical logs. tbzero would >"flush" all transactions in the logical logs by ignoring their contents >and placing a checkpoint record at the beginning of the logical log. >I assume that this is a similar problem with Online 7.1 ?? >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >* Rick Clark ( President & CEO ) Internet: rick@imagepro.com >* Imaging Business Consultants, Inc. AOL: rickjclark@aol.com >* San Jose, California 95124, USA. >* Phone: 408 369-9220 >* Fax: 408 369-9223 >------------------------------------------------------------------------