Panic on doing level-0 archive

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BE0758.74860260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi! Platform: DEC AlphaServer 4100 OS: Digital UNIX 4.0D IDS: 7.23.FC4 Tape drive: /dev/rmt0h (internal 4mm DAT, Block size set to 512KB, size set to 2000000KB via onmonitor) I initialized the instance, added separate dbspaces and blobspaces (plogdbs for the physlog, llogdbs for the logical logs, two tempdbs's, one blobspace, blobdbs, that works plus one, tracblobdbs, with a downed chunk due to my dropping it while the instance was online, and the last dbspace, tracdbs, for actual data). While loading the data and moving the logs around, I had the tape device set to /dev/null to prevent the long transaction problem. Last week, I reset the tape device to /dev/rmt0h, my internal 4mm DAT drive, which works very well for normal operating system dumps (using vdump for the advfs filesystem I have). When I tried running a levl-0 archive from the command line, using the command: ontape -s -L 0 -y I got the following messages in the message log (a bit lengthy since I tried the archive twice): Fri Oct 30 12:59:18 1998 12:59:18 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/usr/informix/dev/etc/log_full.sh' 12:59:23 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 13:00:03 INFORMIX-OnLine Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 13:00:03 Physical Recovery Started. 13:00:03 Physical Recovery Complete: 0 Pages Restored. 13:00:03 Logical Recovery Started. 13:00:07 Logical Recovery Complete. 0 Committed, 0 Rolled Back, 0 Open, 0 Bad Locks 13:00:07 Onconfig parameter LOGFILES modified from 6 to 30. 13:00:07 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces 13:00:07 On-Line Mode 13:00:07 Affinitied VP 3 to phys proc 2 13:00:07 Affinitied VP 1 to phys proc 1 13:00:08 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. <## Began manual level-0 archive to /dev/rmt0h ##> <## using ontape -s -L 0 -y ##> 14:19:57 Assert Failed: Internal Error - Segmentation Violation 14:19:57 Who: Session(16, informix@hydrogen.ppsl.com, 26204, 141077672) Thread(46, ontape, 208659328, 3) 14:19:57 Results: OnLine must abort 14:19:57 Action: Reinitialize shared memory 14:19:57 See Also: /tmp/af.2e034d, shmem.2e034d.0 14:20:17 rsinit.c, line 9967, thread 46, proc id 25613, Segmentation Violation. 14:20:17 PANIC: Attempting to bring system down Fri Oct 30 16:38:28 1998 16:38:28 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/usr/informix/dev/etc/log_full.sh' 16:38:35 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 16:39:15 INFORMIX-OnLine Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 16:39:15 Physical Recovery Started. 16:39:21 Physical Recovery Complete: 2064 Pages Restored. 16:39:21 Logical Recovery Started. 16:39:24 Logical Recovery Complete. 0 Committed, 0 Rolled Back, 0 Open, 0 Bad Locks 16:39:24 Onconfig parameter TAPEDEV modified from /dev/null to /dev/rmt0h. 16:39:24 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces 16:39:24 On-Line Mode 16:39:25 Affinitied VP 3 to phys proc 2 16:39:25 Affinitied VP 1 to phys proc 1 16:39:25 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 1 seconds. <## Began level-0 archive to /dev/rmt0h ##> <## using ontape -s -L 0 ##> 16:41:47 Who: Session(14, informix@hydrogen.ppsl.com, 1438, 141078472) Thread(44, ontape, 208659988, 3) 16:41:47 Results: OnLine must abort 16:41:47 Action: Reinitialize shared memory 16:41:47 See Also: /tmp/af.2c248b, shmem.2c248b.0 16:42:07 rsinit.c, line 9967, thread 44, proc id 1389, Segmentation Violation. 16:42:07 PANIC: Attempting to bring system down Fri Oct 30 16:42:44 1998 16:42:44 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/usr/informix/dev/etc/log_full.sh' 16:42:50 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 16:43:30 INFORMIX-OnLine Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 16:43:30 Physical Recovery Started. 16:43:36 Physical Recovery Complete: 2064 Pages Restored. 16:43:36 Logical Recovery Started. 16:43:38 Logical Recovery Complete. 0 Committed, 0 Rolled Back, 0 Open, 0 Bad Locks 16:43:38 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces 16:43:38 On-Line Mode 16:43:38 Affinitied VP 3 to phys proc 2 16:43:38 Affinitied VP 1 to phys proc 1 16:43:39 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 1 seconds. 16:45:36 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped. Fri Oct 30 16:45:59 1998 16:45:59 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/usr/informix/dev/etc/log_full.sh' 16:46:04 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 16:46:45 INFORMIX-OnLine Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 16:46:45 Physical Recovery Started. 16:46:45 Physical Recovery Complete: 0 Pages Restored. 16:46:45 Logical Recovery Started. 16:46:48 Logical Recovery Complete. 0 Committed, 0 Rolled Back, 0 Open, 0 Bad Locks 16:46:48 Onconfig parameter SHMVIRTSIZE modified from 32000 to 40960. 16:46:48 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces 16:46:48 On-Line Mode 16:46:48 Affinitied VP 3 to phys proc 2 16:46:48 Affinitied VP 1 to phys proc 1 16:46:48 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 16:51:49 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 16:56:49 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 17:12:18 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 17:27:18 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 17:37:19 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. <Remainder snipped.> I've got the onstat -a output and any af or shmem dumps avaialbe for any one to peruse. Can someone point me in the right direction for an explanation/solution to this? I shall be upgrading to IDS 7.30.FCx in December, but I'm in the midst of testing of a major application now and time is of the essence. If the database needs to be redstored, I will be setting testing back by 1.5 hours. Thanks for your help in advance. Best regards, Edmund Nigel Gall Information Systems Specialist Process Plant Services Limited Atlantic Avenue, Point Lisas Industrial Estate Point Lisas, Couva, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. 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