RE: Initialization-Error

If you want to bring the Informix Engine online for the first time you must use oninit -i to initialize the rootdbs. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Stainer [SMTP:tstainer@styria.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:44 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Initialization-Error I'm trying to initialize an Informix 7.30 UC6 instance for testing on an HP715 workstation (128 MB RAM): Therefore I've created a cooked device (dd if.... bs... count... of=rootdbs), set the ownership and rights to informix:informix resp. 660 and configured all the rest (as it is realised on our HP9000/800 K360/4 except some kernel parameters adjusted to the smaller platform I wish to install IDS). Whenever I type in an "oninit" the systems returns the error message "Cannot open chunk ..... errno = 2" and the online.log tells me: 17:41:00 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/home/informix/etc/log_full.sh' 17:41:06 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 17:41:07 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC6 Software SerialNumber XXX#123456 17:41:07 Assert Failed: chunk failed sanity check 17:41:07 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC6 17:41:07 Who: Session(1, user@host, 0, 0) Thread(7, main_loop(), 0, 1) File: rspartn.c Line: 6882 17:41:07 Results: Chunk 1 is being taken OFFLINE. 17:41:07 Action: Restore chunk from archive. 17:41:09 See Also: /usr1/informix/tmp/af.75612 17:41:09 I/O error, Primary Chunk '/dev/rootdbs' -- Offline (sanity) 17:41:10 Informix Dynamic Server Stopped. 17:41:10 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correctsegments How can I get the rootdbs online ?!? Has anybody (I'm sure there is) the slightest idea what to do in such a case? thanx for help thomas ------------------------------------------------- Thomas Stainer - tstainer@styria.com