Re: EMERGENCY: Logs attached

I said: >also, check for semaphore sets that will show up with ipcs -s and I should add: remove any Informix semaphores also with ipcrm and I should add in BIG LETTERS for all to read: IF YOU USE THE REMOVE COMMAND (ipcrm) AGAINST A RUNNING ENGINE OR OTHER RUNNING APPLICATIONS THAT HAVE ALLOCATED SHARED MEMORY OR SEMAPHORES, THEN THE BROWN SMELLY STUFF WILL REALLY START TO FLY, AND THINGS WILL START CRASHING DOWN AROUND YOUR EARS. Don't mess with these commands unnecessarily, and be $#%^$! Careful if you ignore advice not to...

"Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@sanderson.net.au> writes: > I said: > >also, check for semaphore sets that will show up with ipcs -s > > and I should add: remove any Informix semaphores also with ipcrm > > and I should add in BIG LETTERS for all to read: > > IF YOU USE THE REMOVE COMMAND (ipcrm) AGAINST A RUNNING ENGINE OR OTHER > RUNNING APPLICATIONS THAT HAVE ALLOCATED SHARED MEMORY OR SEMAPHORES, THEN > THE BROWN SMELLY STUFF WILL REALLY START TO FLY, AND THINGS WILL START > CRASHING DOWN AROUND YOUR EARS. > > Don't mess with these commands unnecessarily, and be $#%^$! Careful if you > ignore advice not to... Ahhh, ye olde' "ipcrm the wrong memorysegment"! I once brought down the wrong db that way (it was late, I'd been working for about 20 hours and I was typing in the wrong window for some reason) -lots of fun, much panic... Thomas