Error initializing the engine

I'm installing an old version, 9.20HC3 on an HP-UX 11.11 platform. We are trying to bring an old machine back to life for disaster recovery needs. I installed the product just fine, but when I run oninit iv, I get the error below: /usr/informix->oninit -iv This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server 2000; any existing Informix Dynamic Server 2000 databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/usr/informix/etc/onconfig.rt'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded Creating infos file "/usr/informix/etc/.infos.online1shm" ... "/usr/informix/etc/.conf.online1shm" ... succeeded Writing to infos file ... succeeded Checking config parameters...succeeded Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded Creating resident pool 19896 kbytes...succeeded Creating buffer pool 120002 kbytes...succeeded Initializing rhead structure...succeeded Initializing ASF ...succeeded Initializing Dictionary Cache and SPL Routine Cache...succeeded Bringing up ADM VP...succeeded Creating VP classes...succeeded Onlining 1 additional cpu vps...succeeded Onlining 40 IO vps...succeeded Forking main_loop thread...succeeded Initialzing DR structures...succeeded oninit: Fatal error in initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags; asfcode = '-25580'. It initialized ASF fine, but what about these flags? finderr -25580 -25580 System error occurred in network function. What network function errored? Thanks in advance.

Hi, most likely this is some kind of configuration problem. Check the setup of your $ONCONFIG file (DBSERVERNAME, DBSERVERALIASES, NETTYPE parameters), your $INFORMIXSQLHOSTS file (check for the correct protocol, i.e. what is supported in the release on this platform), crosscheck protocols against the "Machine Specific Notes" ($INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333/...). If you find an "unsolicited" NETTYPE entry in your $ONCONFIG (i.e. one that has no parameters or no corresponding entry in your $INFORMIXSQLHOSTS file), then remove it (or at least comment it out with a '#' in first column). Unfortunately I can't tell you more specifically, what function suffered from which error exactly. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich Data Management Solutions forum.subscriber@iiug.org wrote on 16.11.2004 08:02:08: > I'm installing an old version, 9.20HC3 on an HP-UX 11.11 platform. We are trying to bring an old machine back to life for disaster recovery needs. I installed the product just fine, but when I run oninit iv, I get the error below: > > /usr/informix->oninit -iv > > This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server 2000; > any existing Informix Dynamic Server 2000 databases will NOT be accessible - > Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y > Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded > Reading configuration file '/usr/informix/etc/onconfig.rt'...succeeded > Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded > Creating infos file "/usr/informix/etc/.infos.online1shm" ... "/usr/informix/etc/.conf.online1shm" ... succeeded > Writing to infos file ... succeeded > Checking config parameters...succeeded > Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded > Creating resident pool 19896 kbytes...succeeded > Creating buffer pool 120002 kbytes...succeeded > Initializing rhead structure...succeeded > Initializing ASF ...succeeded > Initializing Dictionary Cache and SPL Routine Cache...succeeded > Bringing up ADM VP...succeeded > Creating VP classes...succeeded > Onlining 1 additional cpu vps...succeeded > Onlining 40 IO vps...succeeded > Forking main_loop thread...succeeded > Initialzing DR structures...succeeded > oninit: Fatal error in initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags; asfcode = '-25580'. > > It initialized ASF fine, but what about these flags? > > finderr -25580 > -25580 System error occurred in network function. > > What network function errored? > > Thanks in advance. > >

Verify that the host and service are correct in the sqlhosts file and that the service is registered in /etc/services. Also, though the 'service' for onipcshm connections is a dummy it must not be the same as some network connection uses. Best not to use a real servicename at all. Last make sure that the host is all lower case and that it is the host's primary name and not an alias, some versions of IDS and the connectivity tools have had trouble using hostname aliases and 9.20 is an old version. Art S. Kagel ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Struc.... <kevin.struckhoff@newroads.com> At: 11/16 2:26 > I'm installing an old version, 9.20HC3 on an HP-UX 11.11 platform. We are trying > to bring an old machine back to life for disaster recovery needs. I installed > the product just fine, but when I run oninit iv, I get the error below: > > /usr/informix->oninit -iv > > This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server 2000; > any existing Informix Dynamic Server 2000 databases will NOT be accessible - > Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y > Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded > Reading configuration file '/usr/informix/etc/onconfig.rt'...succeeded > Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded > Creating infos file "/usr/informix/etc/.infos.online1shm" ... > "/usr/informix/etc/.conf.online1shm" ... succeeded > Writing to infos file ... succeeded > Checking config parameters...succeeded > Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded > Creating resident pool 19896 kbytes...succeeded > Creating buffer pool 120002 kbytes...succeeded > Initializing rhead structure...succeeded > Initializing ASF ...succeeded > Initializing Dictionary Cache and SPL Routine Cache...succeeded > Bringing up ADM VP...succeeded > Creating VP classes...succeeded > Onlining 1 additional cpu vps...succeeded > Onlining 40 IO vps...succeeded > Forking main_loop thread...succeeded > Initialzing DR structures...succeeded > oninit: Fatal error in initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags; asfcode = > '-25580'. > > It initialized ASF fine, but what about these flags? > > finderr -25580 > -25580 System error occurred in network function. > > What network function errored? > > Thanks in advance.