RE: Livewire Informix Error on IRIX 5.3 (ASF_INIT_DATA)
Posted in 1996
Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Server Administration
Sorry, I should mention that IRIX does not have an /etc/system file, which
is why we attempted to change the settings via systune -i, an interactive
command-line utitity.
On Tuesday, May 07, 1996, Kenneth Norton wrote...
> I used to be an Informix 5.x DBA, but have been out of it for a while.
> I recently got the Netscape Livewire Pro Beta (with Informix 7.1) and am
> having problems bringing the engine up in IRIX 5.3. Others are
> experiencing the exact same problems, but we are getting no help from
> Netscape and are hoping that it is a problem that someone here can help
> with.
>
> After installing, I attempt an oninit -iy as specified in the readme.txt
> and get the following error:
>
> % oninit -iy> oninit: Fatal error in initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags;
> asfcode = '25507'.
>
> There are tuneable parameters specified in the readme.txt file that need
> to go in /etc/system. I'm assuming these are shared memory parameters,
> so we attempted to change them with systune -i. Most were changed
> successfully, but others were not tuneable to the parameters listed.
> These are the parameters Netscape says to tune in the readme.txt file:
>
> set enable_sm_wa = 1
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=16777216
> set semsys:seminfo_semmap=64
> set semsys:seminfo_semmni=4096
> set semsys:seminfo_semmns=4096
> set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=4096
> set semsys:seminfo_semume=64
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=100
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=100
>
> In addition, below is my hardware configuration. Thanks in advance for
> your help!
>
> Ken
>
> Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 1.1.0
> 1 200 MHZ IP22 Processor
> FPU: MIPS R4010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
> CPU: MIPS R4400 Processor Chip Revision: 6.0
> On-board serial ports: 2
> On-board bi-directional parallel port
> Data cache size: 16 Kbytes
> Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes
> Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte
> Main memory size: 64 Mbytes
> EISA bus: adapter 0
> Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
> Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93B, revision D
> Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D
> Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
> Graphics board: GR3-Elan
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