Re: help with shared memory error
Posted in 1997
Art S. Kagel — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
Art Machado wrote:
>
> In my online.log file I get the following when I
> run oninit -i:
>
> "shmat: out of shared memory segments, check system SHMSEG"
>
> and "mt_shm_init: can't create virtual segment"
>
> The first couple times I ran it I also got the following messages:
>
> "shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52574801: shared memory already exists"
> "mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment"
>
> Again, any ideas???
Yes. The failed attempts left the shared memory segments lying around.
Remove them by hand with ipcrm they will be owned by group informix and
user root or informix depending on how you ran oninit.
Art Kagel