Re: On line help

} } I'm trying to get a new instance of the on-line engine installed } on our HP server. } } The turbo log gets the following messages written to it. } } Mon Feb 28 11:23:46 1994 } } 11:23:46 I/O error 'read': expect 2048 actual 0 addr 0x0 errno 13 retrys 0 } 11:23:46 I/O error 'read': expect 2048 actual 0 addr 0x0 errno 13 retrys 1 } 11:23:46 I/O error, Primary Chunk '/usr/local/swconv/data/online.rootdbs' -- Of } fline } 11:23:46 I/O read() chunk 1, pagenum 0, pagecnt 1 } 11:23:46 INFORMIX-OnLine Must ABORT } Root chunk down. } 11:23:46 -- Online Aborting -- us=80394120, pid=2934, uid=110 } 11:23:46 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped } } } Anyone have any answers to my problems? Well, you wont like it, i'm afraid. Once the root chunk is marked down, you have to reinitialize and get out your archives. Or, if you are in an old version of informix (4.1 or older, I think), you may set the mirror flag to yes, to bring up the engine, if what you had was a write failure. Its an odd trick, that is not available in the newer releases, but it works when you are in real trouble. As to the real problem, it looks like a permissions problem to me. Check the chunk permission, and make sure it is owned by informix, group informix, permissions of 660. -- Naomi Walker (aka N7FSA) naomi@anasazi.com Phoenix, Arizona The best things in life aren't things.