Re: Installation of Informix 9.30 on Linux RH 9.0

I also had no success with Informix 9.30 on Redhat 9.0 Following Linux versions work RedHat 7.3 works out of the box, no updates from redhat, otherwise informix will suffer a sudden crash with no return. RedHat 8.0 download edition without glibc security patches (RPC) !!!! /var/lib/libpthread.so.0 must be deleted. No updates, never. SuSe 8.1 no glibc updates, but crashes on dual xeon with kernel panic. Single processor works, change then to smp kernel at put in the 2nd CPU later. SuSE 8.2 with glibc-2.2.5 downgrade (seems to be identical with that from redhat 7.3, in size ....) No updates. All older Linux versions with max. libc-2.2.93 seem to work, kernel version seems to be irrelevant, i succeeded even with kernel 2.4.18-smp on redhat 8.0 on dual xeon with hyperthreading and 3ware. Informix sais, that all Linux Distributions with Kernel 2.2.14+ + glibc 2.2.x should work, so Debian should work also ....With setting in /etc/apt/preferences and apt-get upgrade it is also possible to downgrade!!! any DEBIAN distribution. Redhat 9.0 shows up several errors ( __ctype ...), but with deleting libpthread.so.0 informix seems to work correctly. 4GL development toolkit does definitly not work on redhat 9.0. Redhat 8.0 works and compiles fine. RedHat seems to have changed a lot in glibc the last 2-3 month, so that there is no real binary compatibility with older binaries. Pitty. Reasons are some security fixes in RPC, changes in international language packages, which have to do with unicode, pango, etc.. I fear, there will be no way of return. SUN/HP still seems to be able to keep binary compatibility .... Windows NT 2003 (former .NET) also shows many incompatibilities to common win32 binaries ..... Informix 9.40 runs fine on RedHat 8.0, SuSE 8.1 and - with patches on SuSE 8.2 (libpthread.so.0 and glibc patch) I have no idea, if 4GL for Informix 9.30 still work with 9.40 IDS .... By the way, City of Bonn has migrated to PostgreSQL from Informix (400.000.000 GPS points stored) .. Informix took 30 seconds for output of all GPS points in one street, PostgreSQL time was not measurable.... SAPDB (Free Software, GPL, former ADABAS-D) has Informix 7.x compatibility. reagards, Guido Stepken Silviu Stoica wrote: > I tried to install Informix 9.30 on Linux RH 9.0 and after that, when I > wanted to start an instance, this message appeared: > "Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res > directly. Needs to be fixed. > shared memory not initialized for ..." > can anybody help me with an advice or a tip? Looking forward for your > earliest reply. > Silviu Stoica

Guido Stepken wrote: [ ... snip ... ] > > Informix 9.40 runs fine on RedHat 8.0, SuSE 8.1 and - with patches on > SuSE 8.2 (libpthread.so.0 and glibc patch) > I have no idea, if 4GL for Informix 9.30 still work with 9.40 IDS .... > Can you pls post more details? I atm have a support case pending regarding IFX V9.40.UC1 on SuSE 8.2. SuSE 8.2 comes with glibc 2.3.2-6. Support told us to downgrade to glibc 2.3.2-5. I also tryed to upgrade to 2.3.2-9. But we still have only a workaround for the mapped_base default problem. /proc/$$/mapped_base defaults to 0x40000000. With SHMBASE defaulting to 0x10000000 we can only initialise when setting BUFFERS to a very low value, MUCH lower than the 768MB one can expect to work. And we cannot attach to shared memory from onmode or onstat ... Workaround is to change mapped_base in every session which does anything with the engine. I gonna downgrade to SuSE 8.1 where we did not have any problems with V9.40.UC1 after getting pointed to the glibc upgrade, which is necessary to get things going. (Look for Martin Fuerderers answer in IIUG's Linux SIG arounf May 8th, 2003. The path to the rpm for this glibc 2.2.5-162 upgrade is there) dic_k [ ... snip ... ]

Guido Stepken wrote: > I also had no success with Informix 9.30 on Redhat 9.0 > > Following Linux versions work > > RedHat 7.3 works out of the box, no updates from redhat, otherwise > informix will suffer a sudden crash with no return. > > RedHat 8.0 download edition without glibc security patches (RPC) !!!! > /var/lib/libpthread.so.0 must be deleted. No updates, never. RH 8.0 fully patched running 9.30. Works fine. Michael > > > SuSe 8.1 no glibc updates, but crashes on dual xeon with kernel panic. > Single processor works, change then to smp kernel at put in the 2nd > CPU later. > > SuSE 8.2 with glibc-2.2.5 downgrade (seems to be identical with that > from redhat 7.3, in size ....) No updates. > > All older Linux versions with max. libc-2.2.93 seem to work, kernel > version seems to be irrelevant, i succeeded even with kernel > 2.4.18-smp on redhat 8.0 on dual xeon with hyperthreading and 3ware. > > Informix sais, that all Linux Distributions with Kernel 2.2.14+ + > glibc 2.2.x should work, so Debian should work also ....With setting > in /etc/apt/preferences and apt-get upgrade it is also possible to > downgrade!!! any DEBIAN distribution. > > Redhat 9.0 shows up several errors ( __ctype ...), but with deleting > libpthread.so.0 informix seems to work correctly. 4GL development > toolkit does definitly > not work on redhat 9.0. Redhat 8.0 works and compiles fine. > > RedHat seems to have changed a lot in glibc the last 2-3 month, so > that there is no real binary compatibility with older binaries. Pitty. > Reasons are some security fixes in RPC, changes in international > language packages, which have to do with unicode, pango, etc.. > I fear, there will be no way of return. SUN/HP still seems to be able > to keep binary compatibility .... > > Windows NT 2003 (former .NET) also shows many incompatibilities to > common win32 binaries ..... > > Informix 9.40 runs fine on RedHat 8.0, SuSE 8.1 and - with patches on > SuSE 8.2 (libpthread.so.0 and glibc patch) > I have no idea, if 4GL for Informix 9.30 still work with 9.40 IDS .... > > By the way, City of Bonn has migrated to PostgreSQL from Informix > (400.000.000 GPS points stored) .. Informix took 30 seconds for output > of all GPS points in one street, PostgreSQL time was not measurable.... > SAPDB (Free Software, GPL, former ADABAS-D) has Informix 7.x > compatibility. > > reagards, Guido Stepken > > > Silviu Stoica wrote: > >> I tried to install Informix 9.30 on Linux RH 9.0 and after that, when I >> wanted to start an instance, this message appeared: >> "Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res >> directly. Needs to be fixed. >> shared memory not initialized for ..." >> can anybody help me with an advice or a tip? Looking forward for your >> earliest reply. >> Silviu Stoica > >