Re: Help help help help

Ron writes : >Our machine crashed without warning. The reason for the crash >has not been determined as it automatically rebooted itself. Is there nothing in /usr/adm/syslog or SCO equivalent - normally when a machine panics, you should get some 'emergency' message logged. (unless of course you don't :) ) > >PROBLEM >------- > >The machine rebooted and following appropriate file system >checks came up fine, however, Informix will refuse to go >into Quiescent mode. The shared memory seems to initialise >o.k but when the engine attempts recovery mode, the "tbinit" >process dies and dumps core. The "tbmonitor" program >reports the following error :- ** WARNING: Daemon Died ** > [Stuff deleted] >INFORMIX VERSIONS >----------------- > >INFORMIX-OnLine Version 4.10.UG1 >INFORMIX-STAR Version 4.10.UD2 [Stuff deleted] We have been told by our support people that the versions of Online must be EXACTLY the same - for example 4.10.UG1 and 4.10.UD2 would not be supported - I would like to know if this is true in general ??? (Has the Informix feed been fixed yet ? :) ) As far as the rest of your problem goes, I think Informix have a special utility (tbzero ???) that will fool the engine into thinking it has finished the logical log rollforward even when it hasn't - perhaps you should contact them. This seems to be a useful utility - it fixes all sorts of problems( eg: chunks being marked as down can be unmarked as up) : perhaps they should include it in upcoming releases. Hope this helps, Richard Ridley DHL Asia Pacific Singapore