Re: Start up error

From: "William Gardner" <wgardner@newcastle.edu.au> > >Currently, I have trouble with my Informix DB. > >There are messages, say: > >-- start from here -- > >Starting up Informix-DS RDBMS for db > >oninit: Cannot open chunk '/dev/mydb' errno = 6 >onint: Fatal error in shared memory initialization > >Shared memory not initialized for INFORMIX SERVER 'my_db' > >Informix DS-db is not ready > >The system is ready > >-- End --- > >Could anyone explain this error ? Any possible solution? I installed this >Informix on SunSparc 10 Does /dev/mydb exist, is it a file or raw disk chunk, what are the ownership/group and permission details? _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > From: "William Gardner" <wgardner@newcastle.edu.au> > >Currently, I have trouble with my Informix DB. > >There are messages, say: > > > >-- start from here -- > > > >Starting up Informix-DS RDBMS for db > > > >oninit: Cannot open chunk '/dev/mydb' errno = 6 > >onint: Fatal error in shared memory initialization > > > >Shared memory not initialized for INFORMIX SERVER 'my_db' > > > >Informix DS-db is not ready > > > >The system is ready > > > >-- End --- > > > >Could anyone explain this error ? Any possible solution? I installed this > >Informix on SunSparc 10 > > Does /dev/mydb exist No: errno 6 is ENXIO - no such device or address. > is it a file or raw disk chunk, what are the > ownership/group and permission details? If it was a raw device, did you reboot and fail to recreate the association between the raw device and the underlying disk? -- Yours, Jonathan Leffler (Jonathan.Leffler@Informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"