RE: Oninit failure

How did you reinstall the instance? does /INFORMIXTMP exist? If you just did a tar restore, /INFORMIXTMP needs to exist as well as some logical links in /usr/lib I am not sure what happens if INFORMIXTMP does not exist. (maybe this?) if it does exist, does informix have write permissions to it? I dont have 7.24 here, but there is a .infxdirs file in the /INFORMIXTMP directory. I can not figure out why it claims to be looking in /etc. Hope this helps, Will >===== Original Message From "Farmer, Byrd G - CFC" <Farmer.Byrd@cfwy.com> ===== >We has a disk drive crash on out test server. It has been corrected and >Informix 7.24UC3 has been reinstalled. When we try to bring up the engine >we get the following error messages during the oninit -v > >[048]/export/home/informix/>oninit -v >Reading configuration file >'/usr/informix/7.24.UC3/etc/onconfig.cf'...succeeded >Creating /etc/.infxdirs ... FAILED >Creating infos file "/usr/informix/7.24.UC3/etc/.infos.pcotest" ... >"/usr/inform >ix/7.24.UC3/etc/.conf.pcotest" ... succeeded >Writing to infos file ... succeeded >Checking config parameters...succeeded >Allocating and attaching to shared memory...FAILED >oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation > > >Can anyone help explain the "creating /etc/.infxdirs....FAILED" message? >This database was working fine last week. ------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------