Re: HELP!! oninit -i fails ... Help
Sham Vaidya wrote:
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> After performing an "oninit -i" with the original initialization
> and shared memory parameters without any dbspace except root
> dbspace and its chunk, the error I get in onmonitor
> is "WARNING: Network Down". I tail the log file & it mentions
> that I am in On-Line mode and the sysmaster databases were
> created successfully, however as soon as I try and do an
> onspaces -c to create a dbspace it gives me a shared memory> error, if I try it from onmonitor it gives me a network
> error.
I have seen this symptom when I set up my OnLine system with a
SERVERNAME like abcd but had neglected to set my INFORMIXSERVER
environment variable to this value before starting the oninit. Hence,
if you run ipcs -m you will see the shared memory siting there but any
other command you run is useless because it required INFORMIXSERVER to
match the name in the instance you ran.
Do not run oninit -i again. Merely set this env. variable and try
onmonitor.
> I am able to create the stores7 database in root dbspace
> and attach to it via dbaccess and run queries.
I presume (and I could be wrong) that you are doing this as a user whose
.profile HAS been properly set and is, therefore, able to attach to the
instance. If I am worng about this - well, never mind the above advice
either - it's based on as assumption.
> Another error I get in the online.log is the file limits
> cannot be changed, must be a super user...
I'm in the same state of duh! as you are on this one.
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