Solaris 5.8 (system 8)??

Has anybody test run Informix 9.2 on Solaris 8? I know that Informix as a company does not support it yet. And being a "smarty", I was trying to run a clean copy ( no database yet, just engine) on 5.8. It errors: "Fatal error in shared memory initialization" I wonder if it just me, or it really does not like new OS. (BTW: I did configure kernel, and permissions, and ...) Any ideas? Thank you in advance, Elena.

I want to add an output of online.log to my previous message about Informix 9.2 producing error on initialization: ********* 17:32:21 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 328704KB to344064KB 17:32:24 Segment locked: addr=0xa000000, size=352321536 17:32:24 Segment locked: addr=0xa000000, size=352321536 17:32:24 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 200000KB to200704KB 17:32:24 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/dh0/db1/informix92/etc/no_log.sh' 17:32:24 Booting Language <c> from module <> 17:32:24 Loading Module <CNULL> 17:32:24 Booting Language <builtin> from module <> 17:32:24 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL> 17:32:30 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 408KB to 1024KB 17:32:30 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.20.UC2 17:32:30 Assert Failed: chunk failed sanity check 17:32:30 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.20.UC2 17:32:30 Who: Session(1, root@bigsister, 0, 521150488) Thread(7, main_loop(), 1f0d3018, 1) File: rspartn.c Line: 7242 17:32:30 Results: Chunk 1 is being taken OFFLINE. 17:32:30 Action: Restore chunk from archive. 17:32:30 stack trace for pid 505 written to /dh0/db1/informix92/tmp/af.3efc71d 17:32:30 See Also: /dh0/db1/informix92/tmp/af.3efc71d 17:32:32 I/O error, Primary Chunk '/dh0/db1/data/rootdbs' -- Offline (sanity) 17:32:32 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Stopped. 17:32:32 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments **************thanks a lot in advance, Elena. Elena <ekorol@styleclick.com> wrote in message news:nPz25.2002$Qf6.66102@nuq-read.news.verio.net... > Has anybody test run Informix 9.2 on Solaris 8? > I know that Informix as a company does not support it yet. > And being a "smarty", I was trying to run a clean copy ( no database yet, > just engine) on 5.8. > It errors: "Fatal error in shared memory initialization" > I wonder if it just me, or it really does not like new OS. > (BTW: I did configure kernel, and permissions, and ...) > > Any ideas? Thank you in advance, > Elena. > >

Check the ownership and permissions on the root chunk. Should be: informix informix -rw-rw---- Elena wrote: [SNIP extraneous] > 17:32:30 Who: Session(1, root@bigsister, 0, 521150488) > Thread(7, main_loop(), 1f0d3018, 1) > File: rspartn.c Line: 7242 > 17:32:30 Results: Chunk 1 is being taken OFFLINE. [SNIP] If the perms are OK try reading from it (and if you have not initialized the engine yet (oninit -i) try writing to it using dd or cat to see if you get any errors. Art S. Kagel