Re: Problems installing Informix DS on ScoOpen 5
Posted in 1997
xx wrote:
> I'm running a ScoOpen 3.2v5.0.2 and I have installed an Informix
> Online DS
> 7.22.UC3.
> The installation went ok, but when I run the command :
> oninit -iy> I receive the error message :
> oninit: Fatal error in initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags;
> asfcode
> = '-
> 25580'.
>
> $
>
> The log (online.log) tells me :
> 22:27:25 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG =
> '/usr/informix/log_full.sh'
>
> 22:27:30 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off)
>
> 22:27:30 (2) failure, system out of semaphores>
> $
>
>
> It looks like there is too little semaphore space available. I
> changed the
> kernel parms to :
> SEMMAP: 8192
> SEMNI:8192
> SEMNU:100
> which are the recommended values given from Informix. I also changed
> SHMMAX to 409600000
> and then relinked the kernel.
>
> I still get these error messages and I'm running out of ideas.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated!
Try setting all of the following:
SHMMAX: 409600000
SHMMIN: 1
SHMALL: 512
SHMMNI: 100
SHMSEG: 6
SEMMNI: 8192
SEMMNS: 8192
SEMMAP: 8192
SEMMNU: 100
SEMMSL: 25
Now recompile the kernel and try again. All of the above parms are
required.