Re: Problem starting up 7.23 UC1 on AIX

We have that on AIX 4.1.5 when using 7.22UC2. The problem is the AIX's pthread library (bos.rte.pthread), checkout AIX's PTF for fileset bos.rte.pthread.4.1.5.1 at least. Chris sujata_soman_at_omm-la2-infotech-001@internet.omm.com wrote: : Hi everybody, : We upgraded to 7.23 UC1 from 7.22 UC2 ODS on our AIX platform a couple of : weeks back. Since then on two different days, I have noticed that when I kill : the engine and attempt to restart it, it just sits at the "initializing ... : please wait " prompt for just about ever. ( I waited upto 25 minutes once ). So, : I Ctrl-C it, then I have to onmode -ky it ( since it is still in the : initialization stage ), then I have to kill the oninits physically ( since they : just stay there too ). And then I have to start all over again, and the same : thing happens. The first time it happened, the cycle continued for 5 times, and : then the 6-th time it initialized. The second time ( which is going on right now : ), I am on the third attempt to bring up the server, and no luck so far. This is : our development box, but I still need the server up in about an hour for work. : Any ideas what is going on ?? This has never happened before. Is this a bug : ?? I am concerned because we just moved to 7.23 on our production m/c last : weekend. : Any clues appreciated. : As a last resort, I am going to recycle the UNIX box, since it hasn't been : shutdown for a long time and there are a lot of defunct processess ( previously : oninits ).Again, this is not a regular occurence. : Thanks in advance : Sujata : ******************************************************************************** : ****************************** : * Sujata Soman : * : * E-Mail: ssoman@omm.com : * : * Database Administrator ( Informix ) : * : * O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles : * : ******************************************************************************** : ****************************** -- Chris Lo mailto: cklo@hk.super.net System Administrator/Informix DBA mailto: cklo@cklo.hk.super.net The Prudential Assurance (HK) Co. Ltd mailto: paclck@hk.net ============================================================================== -- Linux + FreeBSD + HPUX + Solaris + AIX ============================================================================== #include <std/disclaimer.h>