Informix doesn't start after reboot

Hi everybody. I have restarted a debian server. After the boot process have finished, I found that informix can't start (and I swear that it always started, since the last 9 months!). These are the facts: Starting informix (as the user informix) this is what happens: $ oninit -vChecking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/opt/informix/etc/onconfig'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded Creating infos file "/opt/informix/etc/.infos.datapos" ... "/opt/informix/etc/.conf.datapos" ... succeeded Writing to infos file ... succeeded Checking config parameters...succeeded Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded Creating resident pool 3042 kbytes...succeeded Creating buffer pool 40002 kbytes...succeeded Initializing rhead structure...succeeded Initializing ASF ...succeeded Initializing Dictionary Cache and SPL Routine Cache...succeeded Bringing up ADM VP... In the online.log I've got: 17:02:54 Informix Dynamic Server Started. Thu Oct 13 17:02:56 2005 17:02:56 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/opt/informix/etc/log_full.sh' 17:02:56 Booting Language <c> from module <> 17:02:56 Loading Module <CNULL> 17:02:56 Booting Language <builtin> from module <> 17:02:56 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL> This is the shared memory map after issuing oninit (before it was blank): $ ipcs ------ Shared Memory Segments -------- key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status 0x52564801 196608 root 660 33554432 0 0x52564802 229377 root 660 10874880 0 0x52564803 262146 root 660 32768000 0 ------ Semaphore Arrays -------- key semid owner perms nsems status 0x00000000 65536 root 660 8 ------ Message Queues -------- key msqid owner perms used-bytes messages Nevertheless, the informix server seems not to exist: no oninit (or something like) process in ps. If I try to stop the server I got this: $ onmode -ky onmode: Shutdown of the database server shall be done by killing the database server processes, as the database server is in Initialization mode and cannot accept onmode commands. If I reissue the command, from the second time I got this: shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'nomedatabase' Any ideas? If someone needs some other infos, just ask! Thanks in advice.

Hello. Seems like Informix is stuck in ADM VP. I wouldn't know by myself, but this is what Mr. Andreas Breitfeld told me about it (and also in his post to CDI, dated 14.10.2005) ---- cut ---- if "oninit -v" hangs in ADM VP: The glibc build for i686 processor should be installed automatically if a i686 or higher optimized kernel is selected in Debian installer. Otherwise it must be installed manually: apt-get install libc6-i686 ---- cut ---- Hope this helps! <mostrostro@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1129905429.339226.111530@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Hi everybody. > > I have restarted a debian server. After the boot process have finished, > I found that informix can't start (and I swear that it always started, > since the last 9 months!). > These are the facts: > > Starting informix (as the user informix) this is what happens: > > $ oninit -v> Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded > Reading configuration file '/opt/informix/etc/onconfig'...succeeded > Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded > Creating infos file "/opt/informix/etc/.infos.datapos" ... > "/opt/informix/etc/.conf.datapos" ... succeeded > Writing to infos file ... succeeded > Checking config parameters...succeeded > Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded > Creating resident pool 3042 kbytes...succeeded > Creating buffer pool 40002 kbytes...succeeded > Initializing rhead structure...succeeded > Initializing ASF ...succeeded > Initializing Dictionary Cache and SPL Routine Cache...succeeded > Bringing up ADM VP... > > In the online.log I've got: > > 17:02:54 Informix Dynamic Server Started.> > Thu Oct 13 17:02:56 2005 > > 17:02:56 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = > '/opt/informix/etc/log_full.sh' > 17:02:56 Booting Language <c> from module <> > 17:02:56 Loading Module <CNULL> > 17:02:56 Booting Language <builtin> from module <> > 17:02:56 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL>> > This is the shared memory map after issuing oninit (before it was > blank): > > $ ipcs> > ------ Shared Memory Segments -------- > key shmid owner perms bytes nattch > status > 0x52564801 196608 root 660 33554432 0 > 0x52564802 229377 root 660 10874880 0 > 0x52564803 262146 root 660 32768000 0 > > ------ Semaphore Arrays -------- > key semid owner perms nsems status > 0x00000000 65536 root 660 8 > > ------ Message Queues -------- > key msqid owner perms used-bytes messages > > Nevertheless, the informix server seems not to exist: no oninit (or > something like) process in ps. > If I try to stop the server I got this: > > $ onmode -ky> > onmode: Shutdown of the database server shall be done by killing > the database server processes, as the database server is > in Initialization mode and cannot accept onmode commands. > > If I reissue the command, from the second time I got this: > > shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'nomedatabase' > > Any ideas? > If someone needs some other infos, just ask! > > Thanks in advice. >