RE: Network driver cannot bind a name to the port

Dealing specifically with the *-25572 Network driver cannot bind a name to the port* error, we get that whenever our server crashes (i.e. OS crash) without bringing the engine down properly first. What happenes is that some engine files needed for proper network port management get left in /INFORMIXTMP and this causes the engine to think that you already have another instance of the engine running on the port you specified for it in /etc/services. What you need to do is: - Login as root (because /INFORMIXTMP and all its contents are owned by root). - cd /INFORMIXTMP - mkdir tmp (create a temporary subdirectory of /INFORMIXTMP). - mv * tmp - mv .??* tmp (these two commands move all files to the tmp directory). - Start you instance (check for other config problems first, if any). hope this helps. Best regards, Edmund Nigel Gall Senior Information Systems Specialist Process Plant Services Limited Atlantic Avenue, Point Lisas Industrial Estate Point Lisas, Couva, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. Tel: (868) 636 2906 x 274 Fax: (868) 679 3770 -----Original Message----- From: Yarlagadda, Ravi [mailto:ryarlagadda@labattusa.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:59 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Network driver cannot bind a name to the port Installing IDS (WORK GROUP SERVER) 7.31 FC6 (64 bit version) on HP-UX11.0. I tried to initialize using ONMONITOR utility and it doesn't allowed to complete all field inputs. (PERFORMANCE TUNING PARAMETERS SCREEN). I called Informix Tech support, ONMONITOR utility has known bug (it seems according to Informix tech support ) in the above environment and couldn't initialize the server. Server should be initialize in alternative procedure. I changed the onconfig, sqlhosts and /etc/services files and I tried to initialize with oninit -iyv command and Server was not initialize and "Net work driver cannot bind a name to the port " message found in the log file. Please find the attachments : ------------------------------------------ 1. oninit -iyv : the output is as follows : Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/informix/7.31/etc/onconfig.ifmx'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded Creating infos file "/informix/7.31/etc/.infos.ifmx_online" ... "/informix/7.31/ etc/.conf.ifmx_online" ... succeeded Writing to infos file ... succeeded Checking config parameters...succeeded Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded Creating resident pool 5380 kbytes...succeeded Creating buffer pool 15994 kbytes...succeeded Creating buffer pool 10 kbytes...succeeded Initializing rhead structure...succeeded Initializing ASF ...succeeded Initializing Dictionary Cache and Stored Procedure Cache...succeeded Bringing up ADM VP...succeeded Creating VP classes...succeeded Onlining 0 additional cpu vps...succeeded Onlining 2 IO vps...succeeded Forking main_loop thread...succeeded Initialzing DR structures...succeeded Forking 1 'ipcshm' listener threads...succeeded Forking 1 'soctcp' listener threads...succeeded Forking 0 'soctcp' listener threads...succeeded Starting tracing...succeeded Initializing 1 flushers...succeeded Initializing log/checkpoint information... 2. LOG message in online.log : ------------------------------------- 08:53:52 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/informix/7.31/etc/log_full.sh' 08:53:58 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 08:53:58 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.FC6 Software Serial NumberACN #A313826 08:53:58 listener-thread: err = -25572: oserr = 227: errstr = : Networkdriver cannot bind a name to the port. System error = 227. 08:53:58 Attempting to bring listener thread down. 08:53:58 Server stopped. 08:53:58 Informix Dynamic Server Stopped. 08:53:58 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 3. $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts entrires : ---------------------------------------------------- ifmx_online onsoctcp locnet2 ifmx_srvc ifmx_tcp onsoctcp locnet1 ifmx_tcp 5. /etc/services/ entries : ------------------------------ ifmx_srvc 1525/tcp # service used by OnLine/DSA ifmx_dev_srvc 2056/tcp # serviced used by OnLine/DSA Development ifmx_shm 2057/tcp # service used by OnLine/DSA locnet2 2058/tcp # service used on OnLine/DSA ifmx_tcp 2059/tcp 4. $INFORMIXDIR/etc/onconfig.ifmx ---------------------------------------------- # Root Dbspace Configuration ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name ROOTPATH /informix/7.31/chunks/rootdbs # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 30000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes) # Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters MIRROR 1 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) MIRRORPATH # Path for device containing mirrored root # Path for device containing mirrored root MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes) # Physical Log Configuration PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log PHYSFILE 2000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes)# Logical Log Configuration LOGFILES 16 # Number of logical log files LOGSIZE 500 # Logical log size (Kbytes) # Diagnostics MSGPATH /informix/7.31/online.log # System message log file path CONSOLE /dev/null # System null message path # ALARMPROGRAM /informix/7.31/logs.sh # Alarm program path # System Archive Tape Device TAPEDEV /dev/null # Tape device path TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TAPESIZE 50240 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes) # Log Archive Tape Device LTAPEDEV /dev/null # Log tape device path LTAPEBLK 16 # Log tape block size (Kbytes) LTAPESIZE 10240 # Max amount of data to put on log tape (Kbytes) # Optical STAGEBLOB # INFORMIX-OnLine/Optical staging area # System Configuration SERVERNUM 1 # Unique id corresponding to a OnLineinstance DBSERVERNAME ifmx_online # Name of default database server DBSERVERALIASES ifmx_tcp # List of alternate dbservernames NETTYPE onsoctcp,1,,CPU # Configure poll thread(s) for nettype NETTYPE onsoctcp,1,30,NET # Configure poll thread(s) for nettype DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # Max time to wait of lock in distributed env. RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) MULTIPROCESSOR 1 # 0 for single-processor, 1 formulti-processor NUMCPUVPS 1 # Number of user (cpu) vps SINGLE_CPU_VP