Re: oninit startup failure

MFLD wrote: > In response to Guy, > > Some asked details about my case: > > Is this the first time you've tried initializing after installation or > is this an existing instance which has just stopped working? > ---> It is the first time I initialize the server > As Ben points out in his response, for to set up a new instance, as after a new installation, you need to also initialize disk structures. Make sure that the disk file named in ROOTDBS in the ONCONFIG file exists and add the '-iy' flags to the oninit startup. VERY IMPORTANT the '-i' flag will wipe out the contents of the ROOTDBS (making any existing data inaccessible) so you ONLY want to do this once at the first startup of a new instance on a machine. From then on the '-i' MUST be removed. Art S. Kagel > How much physical memory on this machine? > ---> 2 GB of physical memory > > Disk space ok? > ---> Yes, more than 30 GB free > > What is the exact IDS 10 version? > ---> 10.00.TC3 > > Are you running this directly or via Remote Desktop or some other remote > control software? > ---> Running oninit directly on the command line > > Assuming you're running oninit as user informix, is informix an > Administrator on this machine? > ---> Yes, running oninit as Informix user, member of the Administrators > and Informix-Admin groups > > Correction: the exact low level error message is: > create_vp : cannot allocate semaphore > > Since it looks like a resource allocation problem, I enabled the Windows > audit to monitor the access to the system objects, and I see no failed > event in the security log. > > I also spied the oninit process with FileMon and RegMon, but I did not > detect any problem while accessing the files or the registry. > > Any additional check to do ?