Re: oninit startup failure

MFLD wrote: > ---> Yes, running oninit as Informix user, member of the > Administrators and Informix-Admin groups Hopefully you mean "informix" all lower case - if you had a pre-existing "Informix" user when you installed you can run into a problem. > create_vp : cannot allocate semaphore Can't think of a good reason to get an error like this with only 1 CPU VP, unless maybe something has exhausted working set or some other resource on your machine. I've only seen this error once before on Windows and it required an OS re-install. Guy MFLD wrote: > In response to Guy, > > Some asked details about my case: > > Is this the first time you've tried initializing after installation or > is this an existing instance which has just stopped working? > ---> It is the first time I initialize the server > > How much physical memory on this machine? > ---> 2 GB of physical memory > > Disk space ok? > ---> Yes, more than 30 GB free > > What is the exact IDS 10 version? > ---> 10.00.TC3 > > Are you running this directly or via Remote Desktop or some other remote > control software? > ---> Running oninit directly on the command line > > Assuming you're running oninit as user informix, is informix an > Administrator on this machine? > ---> Yes, running oninit as Informix user, member of the Administrators > and Informix-Admin groups > > Correction: the exact low level error message is: > create_vp : cannot allocate semaphore > > Since it looks like a resource allocation problem, I enabled the Windows > audit to monitor the access to the system objects, and I see no failed > event in the security log. > > I also spied the oninit process with FileMon and RegMon, but I did not > detect any problem while accessing the files or the registry. > > Any additional check to do ?