Problem starting up 7.23 UC1 on AIX

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 * ******************************************************************************** ******************************