RE: 7.30 problems

Are you certain the correct NCR OS patches are applied in particular the PBASE? and PKERN ones. From what I remember one of the PBASE patches overwrite one of the earlier ones and it is the earlier one you require. Also there's a NCR patch required by Informix on part of the OS is not normally installed, without it Informix is very flaky but it does run. I don't believe some of these patches are listed in the release notes but they are on an internal NCR Informix setup document - so might be an idea to chat to NCR ---------- From: LINDA SWARTZ To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: 7.30 problems Date: 03 March 1999 21:30 I migrated to 7.30.uc5 on 12-12-98. Since then Informix has crashed 6 times. We have had Informix dial in and called them numerous times. They have not been able to give us any help. So, I was wondering if anyone out there has had similar problems and if there is a resolution. Here is a rundown on what has happened. Jan. 8 11:31 Stack trace for pid 18668 written to tmp file. Then the master daemaon died. Jan. 11 16:12 Assert failed: Memory block header corruption detected. Then the master daemon died. When I tried to bring the engine back up, I go the same error. Informix dialed in and was unable to find the problem. Feb. 8 8:19 Assert failed: Memory free block header corruption detected. Assert failed: Invalid Mutex type. Feb. 22, 26 Same as above. Mar 1 Assert Failed: No Exception Handler. WE are on an NCR 4300, operating system is Mp-ras 3.02. we have 2 gig of memory. WE are running Ifas financial software. It is written in c, 4gl, microfocus cobol, and esql/c. Any help anyone can give is appreciated. Thanks, Linda