Shared memory initialization error

Hi guys, I was having some problems with my Informix OWS 7.2 So I shut it down like any dumb DBA would do, and now I can't bring it back up!!! I can bring it back up in quesient mode, but whenever I give the oninit command it gives the following error: "oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization" Here's the tail of my online.log. 16:11:01 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/disk12/informix/etc/log_full.sh' 16:11:05 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 16:11:06 Assert Failed: Page Check Error in initchunk 16:11:06 Who: Session(1, informix@jupiter, 0, 170713112) Thread(7, main_loop(), a2ac018, 1) 16:11:06 Results: Possible inconsistencies in '(null)' 16:11:06 See Also: /tmp/af.7f669, shmem.7f669.0 16:11:12 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped. 16:11:12 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments Also, just before I shut it down, I checked my onstat -d and I got the status as "Online (CKPT REQ)" Now, what could that be? I'm guessing it's something to do with Checkpoints but that's as far as I can get. George Mathew Senior Software Engineer I.T.Solutions

When your engine offline run 'oncheck -cr'. For more advices please post 'oninit -v', configuration and af.###### file, named in online.log ------------------------------------------------- With best regards, Yuri Dovgart SAP R/3, Informix technical consultant, Senior System Consultant System Architecture and High Availability Systems, 'Telecominvest' company Email y_dovgart@tci.ukrtel.net ICQ 39284285 george <georgem@its.soft.net> wrote in message news:7vrps4$l7v$1@news.xmission.com... > > Hi guys, > > I was having some problems with my Informix OWS 7.2 > So I shut it down like any dumb DBA would do, and now I can't bring it back > up!!! > I can bring it back up in quesient mode, but whenever I give the oninit > command it gives the following error: > "oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization" > > Here's the tail of my online.log. > 16:11:01 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = > '/disk12/informix/etc/log_full.sh' > 16:11:05 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) > 16:11:06 Assert Failed: Page Check Error in initchunk > 16:11:06 Who: Session(1, informix@jupiter, 0, 170713112) > Thread(7, main_loop(), a2ac018, 1) > 16:11:06 Results: Possible inconsistencies in '(null)' > 16:11:06 See Also: /tmp/af.7f669, shmem.7f669.0 > 16:11:12 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped. > 16:11:12 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correctsegments > > Also, just before I shut it down, I checked my onstat -d and I got the > status as "Online (CKPT REQ)" > Now, what could that be? I'm guessing it's something to do with Checkpoints > but that's as far as I can get. > > > George Mathew > Senior Software Engineer > I.T.Solutions >