Informix error

Hi, I have Informix 7.71 UC5 installed on SCO Unix. When I try to initialize it I get the gollowing error. Any idea what it means and how to solve? mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments Thanks, Vasilis

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 06:21:11 -0400, Vasilis Economides wrote: > Hi, > > I have Informix 7.71 UC5 installed on SCO Unix. When I try to initialize it > I get the gollowing error. Any idea what it means and how to solve? > > > mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments > > > Thanks, > > Vasilis It means that the engine crashed/exited on startup for some reason (try adding the -v option to the oninit to see the step that failed) and the engine was not sure if it successfully removed all shared memory segments that had already been allocated to that point. You need to check for yourself: 'ipcs -a|fgrep informix' to find any left over segments and use ipcrm to get rid of them. I assume the version above is a typo and should be 7.31UC5? Art S. Kagel

On 9 Sep 2004 03:21:11 -0700, vasilis.economides@ctl.com (Vasilis Economides) wrote: >Hi, > >I have Informix 7.71 UC5 installed on SCO Unix. When I try to initialize it >I get the gollowing error. Any idea what it means and how to solve? > > >mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments > > >Thanks, > >Vasilis Did Informix ever run on that system? If yes than do the following: If you have startup and stop scripts (in /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc0.d) then edit startup script (in /etc/rc2.d) to avoid starting up Informix during system startup. Then reboot the system and try to start Informix "manually" - like Art wrote - with: oninit -v Send the messages to the group. nebojsa ------------------------------------ Remove spam block (DELETE_) to reply