RE: Installing Informix on Sun Ultra 10

Try the values from the release notes Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # Please don't Tel: +44 1436 674729 # confuse me with Fax: +44 1436 678693 # someone who cares www.wfsoftware.com # > -----Original Message----- > From: neurologic [mailto:duffybj1@my-deja.com] > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:40 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Installing Informix on Sun Ultra 10 > > > Hello all, > > I am trying to install informix on a Sun Ultra 10 and am > encountering a > problem once I try to start the engine; informix cannot attach to > shared memory. > > The informix installation process does not fill in the > SHMBASE variable> like the manual says it does, and I think that is the problem. I tried > setting SHMBASE to 0x0, but to no avail. > > Anyone out there have any idea what value I should be using or if that > is the problem. > > btw. system is an Ultra 10, 400MHz sparc, 256mb ram, solaris 2.6 > > Thanks in advance! > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. > ********************************************************************** The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(S) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. **********************************************************************

More specifically, make sure your kernel parameters (in /etc/system) are set according to the release notes. Then the default SHMBASE should work just fine. I run a development instance on an Ultra 5 and it works just fine. Jeff Watson Paul <Paul.Watson@fefc.ac.uk> wrote: > >Try the values from the release notes > >Paul Watson # >WF Software Ltd # Please don't >Tel: +44 1436 674729 # confuse me with >Fax: +44 1436 678693 # someone who cares >www.wfsoftware.com # > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: neurologic [mailto:duffybj1@my-deja.com] >> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:40 PM >> To: informix-list@iiug.org >> Subject: Installing Informix on Sun Ultra 10 >> >> >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying to install informix on a Sun Ultra 10 and am >> encountering a >> problem once I try to start the engine; informix cannot attach to >> shared memory. >> >> The informix installation process does not fill in the >> SHMBASE variable>> like the manual says it does, and I think that is the problem. I tried >> setting SHMBASE to 0x0, but to no avail. >> >> Anyone out there have any idea what value I should be using or if that >> is the problem. >> >> btw. system is an Ultra 10, 400MHz sparc, 256mb ram, solaris 2.6 >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> >> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >> Before you buy. >> > > >********************************************************************** >The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(S) of the >mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. >If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution >or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions >taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. >**********************************************************************