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HELP! Informix Dynamic Server 7.3

Posted in 2000

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Storage & Space Management, Platform-Specific Issues

Mark Patrick — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the following: oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization Log reflects: 09:11:07 Informix Dynamic Server Stopped. 09:11:07 I/O error, Primary Chunk '/u1/naf_chunk' -- Offline (sanity) 09:11:06 Action: Restore chunk from archive. 09:11:06 Results: Chunk 1 is being taken OFFLINE. 09:11:06 Who: Session(1, <removed>, 0, 0) Thread(7, main_loop(), 0, 1) File: rspartn.c Line: 6890 09:11:06 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC7 /u1/naf_chunk exists and was created according to the install directions, i.e. copy in /dev/null, set perms, etc. All help greatly appreciated. - Mark

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Jonathan Leffler — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Mark Patrick wrote: > I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked > file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the > following: > > oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 > oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization > > Log reflects: > > 09:11:07 Informix Dynamic Server Stopped. > 09:11:07 I/O error, Primary Chunk '/u1/naf_chunk' -- Offline > (sanity) > 09:11:06 Action: Restore chunk from archive. > 09:11:06 Results: Chunk 1 is being taken OFFLINE. > 09:11:06 Who: Session(1, <removed>, 0, 0) > Thread(7, main_loop(), 0, 1) > File: rspartn.c Line: 6890 > 09:11:06 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC7> > /u1/naf_chunk exists and was created according to the install > directions, i.e. copy in /dev/null, set perms, etc. Which oninit command did you use? If you just copied /dev/null to the file, then you need to initialize the instance -- a one time operation. To do that, use "oninit -i"; if you've done it before, you can say "oninit -iy" instead. The error message is saying, rather cryptically, that it could not find the information that it expected to find in your empty file, mainly because it hasn't written anything to the file yet. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>

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