Informix won't initialize
Posted in 1999
Topics: Backup & Restore, Storage & Space Management, Stored Procedures & SPL, Server Administration, Logging & Checkpoints
When trying to initialize Informix on our test machine I get the following
message:
[acct]:/elite/informix/etc #oninit -v
Reading configuration file '/elite/informix/etc/onconfig.live'...succeeded d
Creating /etc/.infxdirs ... succeeded
Creating infos file "/elite/informix/etc/.infos.server1_shm" ...
"/elite/informsd
Writing to infos file ... succeeded
Checking config parameters...succeeded
Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded
Creating resident pool 8790 kbytes...succeeded
Creating buffer pool 40002 kbytes...succeeded
Initializing rhead structure...succeeded
Initializing ASF ...succeeded
Initializing Dictionary Cache and Stored Procedure Cache...succeeded
Onlining 0 additional cpu vps...succeeded
Onlining 4 IO vps...succeeded
Forking main_loop thread...succeeded
Initialzing DR structures...succeeded
Forking 1 'ipcshm' listener threads...succeeded
Forking 1 'soctcp' listener threads...succeeded
Starting tracing...succeeded
Initializing 8 flushers...succeeded
Initializing log/checkpoint information...succeeded
Opening primary chunks...succeeded
Opening mirror chunks...succeeded
Initializing dbspaces...succeeded
Validating chunks...succeeded
Forking btree cleaner...succeeded
[acct]:/elite/informix/etc #Initializing DBSPACETEMP list
Checking database partition index...FAILED
oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization
I ran ontape -r yesterday and restored the database from our production
machine to the test machine. This is the first time I have had an
opportunity to try this. Any thoughts on what to check? onconfig.live has
not changed since the test machine was our live machine.
Thanks,
Apryle :)