Curious problem starting IDS 7.31ud2, Suse8.2

If online is started using oninit -y the engine crashes per below.it will come up fine using oninit -py. Anyone seen this and know how to cure the problem? Up until recently the server would start fine with oninit -y. Mark 17:04:27 Informix Dynamic Server Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 17:04:27 Physical Recovery Started. 17:04:27 PhysicalRecovery Complete: 0 Pages Restored. 17:04:27 Logical Recovery Started. 17:04:29 Logical Recovery Complete. 0 Committed, 0 Rolled Back, 0 Open, 0 Bad Locks 17:04:30 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces 17:04:30 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 17:04:30Checkpoint loguniq 11, logpos 0x1af018 17:04:30 Assert Failed: No Exception Handler 17:04:31 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD2 17:04:31 Who: Session(1, root@rivendell, 0, 280289300) Thread(8, main_loop(), 10b26014, 1) File: mtex.c Line: 450 17:04:31 Results: Exception Caught. Type: MT_EX_OS, Context: mem 17:04:31 Action: Please notify Informix Technical Support. 17:04:34 See Also: /tmp/af.3f0546e, shmem.3f0546e.0 sending to informix-list