EMERGENCY: New Idea #1

I have a new idea that I want to bounce of you folks. First, for those not familiar with my major problem i will repeat the text of my original message as follows: ------------------------------------------------------- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --------------------------------------------- The following error appears after the question "Do you want to back up the logs?" oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation. Background: I have used this command before to do a complete cold restore of the database. The one suspect event in the recent past which may account for this trouble is I have recently installed I-Connect. I am currently using 7.31 of the Informix Dynamic Server on HPUX. I need to try to resolve this problem before the start of the buisness weed on Monday morning. -------------------------------------- NEW IDEA ---- PLEASE VALIDATE ------------------------------------------- I still have 7.24 installed on my system but it is not in use as I am currently using 7.31. Questions: 1) Is it worth trying to use the 7.24 "ontape -r" command (execute by giving absolute path name). 2) Will a database restored with 7.24 software then work with 7.31 software without conversions. 3) Do I need to do more than get the absolute path name to the old 7.24 ontape command. For the purpose of running this command should I temporarily modify any environment variables to the old 7.24 settings.

Whenever this has happened to us doing an "ontape -r" it's normally because the onconfig.live file has been copied from another machine and the NUMCPUS is different between some of the machines here. The parameter PHYSFILE ...... must match or be greater than the one used when doing the Level0. Yours --- Earle A Long (Senior Informix DBA) SINGLEPOINT UK LTD "MAD" <mad@snip.net> wrote in message news:t6lv7i6m5alq3a@corp.supernews.com... > I have a new idea that I want to bounce of you folks. First, for those not > familiar with my major problem i will repeat the text of my original message > as follows: > > ------------------------------------------------------- ORIGINAL > MESSAGE --------------------------------------------- > The following error appears after the question "Do you want to back up the > logs?" > > oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation. > > Background: I have used this command before to do a complete cold restore of > the database. The one suspect event in the recent past which may account for > this trouble is I have recently installed I-Connect. I am currently using > 7.31 of the Informix Dynamic Server on HPUX. I need to try to resolve this > problem before the start of the buisness weed on Monday morning. > > -------------------------------------- NEW IDEA ---- PLEASE > VALIDATE ------------------------------------------- > > I still have 7.24 installed on my system but it is not in use as I am > currently using 7.31. > > Questions: > > 1) Is it worth trying to use the 7.24 "ontape -r" command (execute by > giving absolute path name). > > 2) Will a database restored with 7.24 software then work with 7.31 software > without conversions. > > 3) Do I need to do more than get the absolute path name to the old 7.24 > ontape command. For the purpose of running this command should I temporarily > modify any environment variables to the old 7.24 settings. > > > > >