Re: Informix 9.4 fails on Red Hat: Beware of glibc-2.3.2-4.80

"John Chantha" <johnchantha@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:f00ee847.0305141152.3972da9d@posting.google.com... > I had the same issue while trying > to upgrade from Informix 9.21 to 9.4 on Linux to glibc 2.2.x. > > ADM VP and "oninit -i" just hangs. What does oninit -ivy give? strace of the vp's at the hang gives? Is RESIDENT set to 0 or 1, set to 1 gives complete system hangs on some versions of Linux/glibc/Informix! Try set to 0. > > So what is IBM Informix 's recommendation for Informix 9.4 on Red Hat ? > > JohnC > johnc@worlwinner.com > > > > Will Secrest" <wsecrest@bellsouth.net> writes: > > I have spent a painful few days trying to get any version of Informix (from > > 9.21 up to 9.40) to "init -i" on a fresh Red Hat 8.0 install. I would > > completely reinstall Red Hat 8 (reformat & partition), get the system > > configured, run up2date, and then install Informix. However, I could not get > > the "oninit -i" to work - it kept dying after trying to bring up the ADM VP. > > When I did the same steps as above without running up2date, the oninit -i> > worked!!!! (I do remember an Informix vs. glibc issue back around the 7.1 > > version, so that's what made me think that the glibc might be the issue). > > > > The glibc that is part of the Red Hat 8.0 install is 2.2.93-5 and the > > version that up2date installs is 2.3.2-4.80 (I remember some kind of > > security bug that was "fixed" sometime in the last 2 weeks). > > > > Just passing my experience on - from all the googling I did trying to > > research this, I saw a few other reports of the issue, but didn't see any > > solutions.