Re: oninit -i refuses to work
Posted in 1996
Shawn Martin — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
The old sysmaster database is taking up room in your root dbspace. The
error ment just what it said. (I know this does not happen often)
see if you can bring up your old instance, and add another chunk to
rootdbspace, then try it again
> @augsburg.net wrote in article
<4uohat$qab@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>...
> 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.