Re: oninit -i refuses to work

Posted in 1996

Girish Rajasekhariah — Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:12:57 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

@augsburg.net wrote: > > We had an existing database and wanted to drop it. > We shut down the working database and took it offline. > > We just tried oninit -i and got the response > > oninit: Not enough room for ROOT dbspace. > Fatal error initializing shared memory.> > Why? And how can we do oninit -i? > > Martin Haltmayer Increase the value for ROOTSIZE parameter in the onconfig file and then try it out. Girish