NT Service Pack 4 problem ?

Posted in 1999

Ivan Krivobarski — Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:28:15 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Is there any problem after installing NT SP4 on the computer having Informix Dynamic Server? Some friends tell me - "Informix does not work any more". Is it true and is there any fix for that ? Thanks ahead Ivan Krivobarski

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Bashar Chalabi — Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:17:18 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

You need 7.3 TC7. Anything before will not work. Bashar Chalabi Ivan Krivobarski wrote in message <7eg0qb$a1e$1@owl.slip.net>... >Is there any problem after installing NT SP4 on the computer having Informix >Dynamic Server? Some friends tell me - "Informix does not work any more". >Is it true and is there any fix for that ? > >Thanks ahead >Ivan Krivobarski > >

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Philip Bragg — Sat, 10 Apr 1999 16:15:36 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Ivan Krivobarski wrote in message <7eg0qb$a1e$1@owl.slip.net>... >Is there any problem after installing NT SP4 on the computer having Informix >Dynamic Server? Some friends tell me - "Informix does not work any more". >Is it true and is there any fix for that ? > >Thanks ahead >Ivan Krivobarski > > Aha, well, I know absolutely nothing about informix products really as this is the first one I've tried to use but... I've just spent a day trying to install IDS Universal server 9.14.TC5 on a box patched to SP4, it got to the end of the setup, where it's about to initialise the disk spaces and stayed there, for 5 hours with 1% cpu activity and only about 8M of RAM in use for that process. Eventually it suggested that I should run oninit -iy or start the service with -iy (same thing I think) - which resulted in exactly the same behaviour. Also, I noted that the onaudit command line program caused an Application Error. Great. I got a similar machine and installed NT4 server patched to SP3 and experienced no problems at all with the setup process, made some tables and tried a few queries and it all worked fine. A quick search of the informix web site didn't show it as being documented let alone patched, maybe I'm searching the wrong bit of the site (the navigation of which "has room for improvement"). I'll be submitting this (again) to informix on Monday. -phil

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Jonathan Leffler — Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:23:54 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Philip Bragg wrote: > > Ivan Krivobarski wrote in message <7eg0qb$a1e$1@owl.slip.net>... > >Is there any problem after installing NT SP4 on the computer > >having Informix Dynamic Server? Some friends tell me - "Informix > >does not work any more". > >Is it true and is there any fix for that ? > > Aha, well, I know absolutely nothing about informix products really > as this is the first one I've tried to use but... > > I've just spent a day trying to install IDS Universal server 9.14.TC5 > on a box patched to SP4 [...and ran into problems...] IIRC, 9.14.TC6 is the version certified for SP4, unless I'm confusing the 7.3 and 9.1x release numbers. Anyway, you need a version which is certified for NT4.SP4. The info should be available on the Informix web site. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>

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Doug Castell — Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:39:17 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Jonathan, >IIRC, 9.14.TC6 is the version certified for SP4, unless I'm confusing >the 7.3 and 9.1x release numbers. Anyway, you need a version which is >certified for NT4.SP4. The info should be available on the Informix >web site. 7.30.tc7 is the 7.3 ver certified for sp4, don't know about 9.x . . . --------------------- Doug Castell GoldMine Software http://www.goldminesw.com