OpenSuse 11.3 and IDS 11.50.FC7TL

Posted in 2010

Christian Winterhager — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:49:30 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Hallo, i have a question concerning OpenSuse 11.3 and IDS: OpenSuSe 11.2 works fine with IDS 11.50.FC5TL, no Problems. But OpenSuSe 11.3 does not: neither IDS 11.50.FC5TL nor IDS 11.50.FC7TL can generate DBSpaces (based an raw-devices, i.e. logical volumes) without KAIOOFFF=1. If onspaces is executed in a SHELL without KAIOOFFF=1, then the logfile will contain the following message: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19:11:56 Assert Warning: I/O error, Primary Chunk '/db/inf/dev/stieff/otto_001' -- Offline 19:11:56 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC7TL 19:11:56 Who: Thread(15, flush_sub(1), 527830d8, 1) File: rsbuff.c Line: 5934 19:11:56 Results: Chunk is now unusable 19:11:56 Action: Repair and restore from mirror or archive 19:11:56 stack trace for pid 5086 written to /home/informix11/tmp/af.3f7abdb 19:11:56 See Also: /home/informix11/tmp/af.3f7abdb 19:11:56 I/O error, Primary Chunk '/db/inf/dev/stieff/otto_001' -- Offline 19:11:56 Assert Warning: Chunk 13 is being taken OFFLINE. 19:11:56 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC7TL 19:11:56 Who: Thread(15, flush_sub(1), 527830d8, 1) File: rsmirror.c Line: 1795 19:11:56 Results: Dynamic Server will block at next checkpoint 19:11:56 Action: Shutdown (onmode -k) or override (onmode -O) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The only method to live with this constraint is to shutdown IDS every time you want to manage DBSpaces, start IDS with KAIOOFF=1, make some changes with onspaces, then shutdown again and start IDS without KAIOOFF=1. Another mysterious property of OpenSuse 11.3 together with IDS 11.50.FC7TL is the fact, that owner and group of temporary dbspaces are changed (from informix:informix to root:disk) after start, so that you see in the message logfile: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 07:58:24 The chunk '/db/inf/dev/stieff/temp2_001' must have owner-ID "informix" and group-ID "informix" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Who can help?