Re: shared mem problem

kimmel@oahu.sedd.trw.com (Mike Kimmel) wrote: >We are having problems initializing shared memory. >I installed our online 7.1 software. >when i do a "init -i" >the following 2 lines appear in the online.log >13:51:46 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already exists >13:51:46 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment >any help would be appreciated. >Thanks, > Mike This message normally indicates that the Online was previously brought up and there are shared memory segments still hanging around after the Online was shutdown or aborted for some reason. Normally, all you need to do is an 'ipcs' command to see what shared memeory segments exists and then do an 'ipcrm x key' where x = segment type such as 'm' or 'q' and key is the key value from your ipcs command. After this is done, you can restart your Online or in your case, reinit. -- Melvin Mariney, Informix DBA e-mail: melvin.mariney2@bridge.bellsouth.com