onpload cannot validate logging state of target database

I just came home after spending several hours in a migration activity that failed completely. Basically, the problem was that "onpladm run job" went silent for a minute while trying to connect to the server and then comes back with the error message "onpload cannot validate logging state of target database". The activities had been tested several times before tonight on different machines with the same software setup: IDS 9.40.FC4 on HP-UX 11.11. More tests were performed on different machines with success. The only place where onpladm failed to connect was on the production cluster. The basic test case that we ended up using was: $ onpladm create project unload $ onpladm create job test1 -p unload -fu -d test1.out -D database_name -t table_name $ onpladm run job test1 -p unload -fu This sequence ran fine on all machines except on any of the four servers in the production cluster. By tracing communication and system calls we were able to determine that onpladm succeeded in connecting to onpload database and issue a number of SQL queries. Finally, it ends up performing the same query against the table "session" repeatedly until it gives up. The system calls made between these queries were only timer related. The cluster is using ServiceGuard packages with virtual IP addresses, but we had the exact same behaviour on an IDS instance using "real" IP addresses. online.log did not mention anything. Anyone have any ideas on what might be the problem or where to look for more information? I've been thinking that maybe there's some problem regarding use of shared memory - this cluster is running multiple IDS instances on the same machine and I thought maybe onpload isn't able to get a hold of enough shared memory? We will create a completely new and minimal IDS instance in the production cluster to experiment on tomorrow and we will probably also log a support case on this - however, any ideas are still welcome because we need to solve this pretty quickly (as usual :oP). thanks for listening. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ sending to informix-list