Re: Shared memory initialization error
From: "george" <georgem@its.soft.net>
>
>I was having some problems with my Informix OWS 7.2
>So I shut it down like any dumb DBA would do, and now I can't bring it back
>up!!!
>I can bring it back up in quesient mode, but whenever I give the oninit
>command it gives the following error:
>"oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization"
>
>Here's the tail of my online.log.
>16:11:01 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG =
>'/disk12/informix/etc/log_full.sh'
>16:11:05 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off)
>16:11:06 Assert Failed: Page Check Error in initchunk
>16:11:06 Who: Session(1, informix@jupiter, 0, 170713112)
> Thread(7, main_loop(), a2ac018, 1)
>16:11:06 Results: Possible inconsistencies in '(null)'
>16:11:06 See Also: /tmp/af.7f669, shmem.7f669.0
>16:11:12 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped.
>16:11:12 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments>
>Also, just before I shut it down, I checked my onstat -d and I got the
>status as "Online (CKPT REQ)"
>Now, what could that be? I'm guessing it's something to do with Checkpoints
>but that's as far as I can get.
You probably still have some shared memory segments left behind. Try ipcs to
find them, ipcrm to remove them, or just bounce your machine.
HTH.
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