Missing error message in 11.70.UC5

Has anyone noticed that there are some error and log messages missing from 11.70.UC5 (possibly other 11.70 versions)??? I had a weak moment myself and failed to configure sqlhosts file correctly when trying to init a new 11.70 instance. On 11.50 I would get a nice error message in log files pointing me to configure sqlhosts so it would include at lest one of DBSERVERNAME/DBSERVERALIASES. IBM oversight, pressure with new features, developer error??? With 11.70.UC5 I just got line "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started." in meessage log and generic failure message from oninit -iv... It is just a minor problem, but being forgetful as I am I've spent quite some time figuring out what went wrong. I realized missing message while falling back to 11.50 and retracing every config step I took... Then 11.50 warned me that sqlhosts are miss configured and that got me going in right direction on 11.70... I have to admit, it was some time since the last time I did a full init of IDS instance on blank machine :(

I can think of an explanation for that, but it really depends on the 11.50 fixpack you're using... Somewhere along 11.50 (xC3 or xC4?.... I would have to check) IBM introduced the ability to start/stop the listeners. One side effect of this (debatable I agree) is that the engine may come up without any listener. I'd say you'll get an error in online.log, but I may be wrong... There is a possible, although not easy to reproduce, dangerous aspect of doing this... In older versions, if you tried to get a second instance running over the same configuration it would not work due to two aspects: 1- Shared memory segments collision 2- TCP port collision Number 2) is gone... And I've seen a situation (Linux and AIX I believe) where if you try to remove the memory segments (by hand) and you still have oninits running, it complains, but after that the "address" shown in ipcs -a "changes" (don't recall if it was to 0x0000000 or 0xDDDDD...). Meaning you could effectively get over 1) above... You'd have to insist on a mistake, but I've seen a costumer doing it... But I'm diverting from the main topic... Which 11.50 were you on? Does onmode -- on that version show the -P (capital "p") option to start/stop the listeners? If it doesn't I'd say that can explain the behavior you've seen (not a problem in 11.7 but a feature in 11.50). Nevertheless, can you re-check the online.log and see if there isn't an error message there complaining that it could not start the listener? Regards On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:51 PM, FRANJO ILI <fzilic@croz.net> wrote: > Has anyone noticed that there are some error and log messages missing from > 11.70.UC5 (possibly other 11.70 versions)??? > > I had a weak moment myself and failed to configure sqlhosts file correctly > when trying to init a new 11.70 instance. On 11.50 I would get a nice error > message in log files pointing me to configure sqlhosts so it would include > at > lest one of DBSERVERNAME/DBSERVERALIASES. > > IBM oversight, pressure with new features, developer error??? > > With 11.70.UC5 I just got line "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started." in > meessage log and generic failure message from oninit -iv... > > It is just a minor problem, but being forgetful as I am I've spent quite > some > time figuring out what went wrong. I realized missing message while falling > back to 11.50 and retracing every config step I took... Then 11.50 warned > me > that sqlhosts are miss configured and that got me going in right direction > on > 11.70... > > I have to admit, it was some time since the last time I did a full init of > IDS > instance on blank machine :( > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently... --0050450166c932816304cbf226c3