RE: shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already exists

Hi Sergey. This error messages means can not create shared memory. Make sure output of ipcs command. Probably shared memory key exists. Try onmod -ky and oninit again. OR Reboot your machine. Regards. -- Tsutomu Ogiwara from Tokyo Japan. ICQ#:168106592 >From: sshumilov@yahoo.com (Sergey) >Reply-To: sshumilov@yahoo.com (Sergey) >To: informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already exists >Date: 30 Nov 2004 23:19:39 -0800 > >Hi guys! >Need some help with informix... > >here is what happens. >on our Linux Red Hat 7 machine we have 3 versions of informix(7.3, >9.2, 9.4) >7.3 and 9.2 work fine after initialization, but 9.4 doesn't want to >initialize. >I also checked onconfig(s) and found that 7.3 and 9.2 use the same >SHMBASE 0x10000000L and 9.4 use 0x44000000L... don't know if it can >help you. > >here is part of online.log > >ue Nov 30 15:20:02 2004 > >15:20:02 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = >'/iif94/etc/alarmprogram.sh' >15:20:02 Booting Language <c> from module <> >15:20:02 Loading Module <CNULL> >15:20:02 Booting Language <builtin> from module <> >15:20:02 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL> >15:20:16 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started. >15:20:16 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already>exists >15:20:16 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment> > >and part of onconfig file > ># Physical Log Configuration > >PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log >PHYSFILE 2000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes)> ># Logical Log Configuration > >LOGFILES 6 # Number of logical log files >LOGSIZE 2000 # Logical log size (Kbytes)> ># Diagnostics > >MSGPATH /iif94/online.log # System message log file path >CONSOLE /dev/console # System console message path> ># To automatically backup logical logs, edit alarmprogram.sh and set ># BACKUPLOGS=Y >ALARMPROGRAM /iif94/etc/alarmprogram.sh # Alarm program path >TBLSPACE_STATS 1 # Maintain tblspace statistics> ># System Archive Tape Device > >TAPEDEV /dev/nul # Tape device path >TAPEBLK 32 # Tape block size (Kbytes) >TAPESIZE 10240 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes)> ># Log Archive Tape Device > >LTAPEDEV /dev/nul # Log tape device path >LTAPEBLK 32 # Log tape block size (Kbytes) >LTAPESIZE 10240 # Max amount of data to put on log tape (Kbytes)> ># Optical > >STAGEBLOB # Informix Dynamic Server staging area > ># System Configuration > >SERVERNUM 2 # Unique id corresponding to a OnLine instance >DBSERVERNAME tester94 # 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 in distributed env. >RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) > >MULTIPROCESSOR 0 # 0 for single-processor, 1 for>multi-processor >NUMCPUVPS 1 # Number of user (cpu) vps >SINGLE_CPU_VP 0 # If non-zero, limit number of cpu vps>to 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 5000 # Maximum number of shared buffers >NUMAIOVPS # Number of IO vps >PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes) >LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes) >CLEANERS 1 # Number of buffer cleaner processes > >SHMBASE 0x44000000L # Shared memory base address> >Please help... this machine must become our new production. sending to informix-list