Re: After OS upgrade, can't run database engine

In article <3489DC39.BD2472AB@echonyc.com>, Cosmo Lee <"* N O - S P A M * cosmo"@echonyc.com> writes >We're running Unixware 2.1 and Informix Online 7.23.UC1 on a Compaq >Proliant 1500 server (Dual 200 MHz Pentium Pros ). > >We just upgraded our Unixware from version 2.1.1 to version 2.1.2. >After the upgrade we cannot instantiate Online. The following message >appears in the "online.log" error file: > Get Online for Unixware 2.1.2. Run the write version of Online for your VERSION of the OS. > >08:27:18 shmat: [ENOMEM][12]: out of available data space, check system>MAXMEM > >08:27:19 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment> > >I've checked the Kernel parameters related to Informix Online to make >sure that they are the same on the upgraded OS version as the previous >one. As far as I can tell, they are, although some of the Kernel >parameters specified by Informix don't actually exist in Unixware >(SHMMIN, SEMMAP, SEMMNU, NCALL, NPROC MAXUP) Also, as far as I can >tell, there is NO tunable called MAXMEM. SHMMAX, though, is set >properly. > >We then removed the 2.1.2 upgrade, going back to 2.1.1 level, rebuilt >the kernel, then rebooted. But upon reboot, Online once again will not >come up (w/ previous level OS), and we get the same error messages! >Ugh!! > >The only thing that saved our butts and keeps us in business is the fact >that I saved the original Unix kernel (before the upgrade) and am >booting from that. > >Any ideas what is going on? > Something changed between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2. >TIA. > >-- >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * >ADDRESS ALTERED TO FOIL SPAMMERS: Remove "*NO-SPAM*" to reply. > >Cosmo Lee Multi-User Computer Systems Brooklyn, NY > > "JUST SAY 'NO' TO SPAM" >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > -- David Williams