Re: Informix doesn't start after reboot
On Friday 21 October 2005 16:37, mostrostro@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I have restarted a debian server. After the boot process have finished,
> I found that informix can't start (and I swear that it always started,
> since the last 9 months!).
> These are the facts:
>
> Starting informix (as the user informix) this is what happens:
>
> $ oninit -v> Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded
> Reading configuration file '/opt/informix/etc/onconfig'...succeeded
> Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded
> Creating infos file "/opt/informix/etc/.infos.datapos" ...
> "/opt/informix/etc/.conf.datapos" ... succeeded
> Writing to infos file ... succeeded
> Checking config parameters...succeeded
> Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded
> Creating resident pool 3042 kbytes...succeeded
> Creating buffer pool 40002 kbytes...succeeded
> Initializing rhead structure...succeeded
> Initializing ASF ...succeeded
> Initializing Dictionary Cache and SPL Routine Cache...succeeded
> Bringing up ADM VP...
Maybe glibc (libc6) was updated in meantime and you got a non i686 or non
tls version. On Debian 3.1 you can check like following:
$ ldd $INFORMIXDIR/oninit
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x40026000)
...
Andreas
>
> In the online.log I've got:
>
> 17:02:54 Informix Dynamic Server Started.>
> Thu Oct 13 17:02:56 2005
>
> 17:02:56 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG =
> '/opt/informix/etc/log_full.sh'
> 17:02:56 Booting Language <c> from module <>
> 17:02:56 Loading Module <CNULL>
> 17:02:56 Booting Language <builtin> from module <>
> 17:02:56 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL>>
> This is the shared memory map after issuing oninit (before it was
> blank):
>
> $ ipcs>
> ------ Shared Memory Segments --------
> key shmid owner perms bytes nattch
> status
> 0x52564801 196608 root 660 33554432 0
> 0x52564802 229377 root 660 10874880 0
> 0x52564803 262146 root 660 32768000 0
>
> ------ Semaphore Arrays --------
> key semid owner perms nsems status
> 0x00000000 65536 root 660 8
>
> ------ Message Queues --------
> key msqid owner perms used-bytes messages
>
> Nevertheless, the informix server seems not to exist: no oninit (or
> something like) process in ps.
> If I try to stop the server I got this:
>
> $ onmode -ky>
> onmode: Shutdown of the database server shall be done by killing
> the database server processes, as the database server is
> in Initialization mode and cannot accept onmode commands.
>
> If I reissue the command, from the second time I got this:
>
> shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'nomedatabase'
>
> Any ideas?
> If someone needs some other infos, just ask!
>
> Thanks in advice.
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