Re: IDS Authentication Problem on AIX

There was a simular issue years ago; AIX had a mem leak in one of the systemcalls causing the db to grow and after it hit some limit it would barf and die??? can not remember the exact details... Go and beat up aix support to get an answer. Superboer. RoB schreef: > Hi group, > > OS: AIX 5300-05 Service Pack 1 > IDS: 10.00.FC5 > > IHAC that is running into some nasty problems on the latest version of > AIX where an IDS instance is reporting a OS authentication problem of > all users trying to connect to the instance (even for the informix > user). All existing connections seems to get dropped and it becomes > impossible to reconnect. > > ... > 10:41:33 WARNING: mt_aio_wait: errno == EINVAL > 10:41:33 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 2: errstr = userA@hostA:> Incorrect password or user userA@hostnameA is not known on the database > server. > System error = 2. > ... > > The problem happens quite sporadically and has been seen to start after > between 10 to 25 days of the instance being online. The only known > solution is to bounce the instance but that isn't acceptable for a live > 24x7 system. > > A call has been raised with Informix support (PMR 02830,019,866 btw for > you ambitious IBM techies) and after applying all the recommended OS > patches, we are still having the problem. > > We're in the process of applying the next two service packs available > for this version of AIX (both were released last month so I'd guess > there are plenty of bugs present) but as this system is to be taken > into production soon, it will definately present a critical problem if > the problem re-occurs then. > > There is now a second instance on the same machine but that one didn't > show the problem last time it occurred on the first instance so perhaps > this isn't an AIX issue but a purely IDS one. > > Has anyone experienced the same type of problem? Tech support doesn't > seem to have an answer to it. > > > RoB