Re: Informix Online 5.0 and Solaris 2.5

Dieter Becker wrote: > > Sirs, > > I wanted to port a running application with Informix 5.0 from Solaris 2.4 > to Solaris 2.5.1. Trying to start the tbinit or tbmonitor leads to the > messages: Shared memory not initialized. But shared memory works, > sysdef -i reports: > .... > * > * IPC Shared Memory > * > 268435456 max shared memory segment size (SHMMAX) > 200 min shared memory segment size (SHMMIN) > 200 shared memory identifiers (SHMMNI) > 200 max attached shm segments per process (SHMSEG) > * > ..... > This is the same output as under 2.4. What could I do for running Online 5.0 > under 2.5.1? > > Any Ideas? > > Thank You > > Dieter > > -- > Dr. med. dipl.-math Dieter Becker Tel.: (0 / +49) 6841 - 16 3046 > Medizinische Universitaets- und Poliklinik Fax.: (0 / +49) 6841 - 16 3043 > Innere Medizin III > D - 66421 Homburg / Saar Email: db@med-in.uni-sb.de "Shared memory not initailzed" does (necessarily) imply a problem with the UNIX server's shared memory; it simply means that the database server is offline. You should look in your output file (defined by MSGPATH in $TBCONFIG I recall) for a detailed message as to why the initialisation of OnLine has failed. Your kernel parameters for shared memory do look rather low; have you checked $INFORMIXDIR/release for the Solaris configuration recommendations? My site runs some OnLine v5.07 instances on Solaris 2.5, so I know it works! Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bank Bournemouth, UK neil.truby@chase.com