Re: Bringing up Online on NCR- MP RAS

Infodata wrote: > > Dear Folks, > > I would appreciate any feedback for the following puzzling situation: > > I have following error when starting Online engine. > > Informix Online 5.10.UC1 > NCR 3000 series with MP-RAS V3.0 > > Following is the error reported on the screen: > > tbinit: Fatal error in shared memory initialisation > 14:33:55 semop failed. errno:36, proc id 1951> > Following is the entry in the log file: > > 14:33:55 I/O error 'read': expect 2048 actual -1 addr 0x0 errno 6 retrys 0 > 14:33:55 I/O error 'read': expect 2048 actual -1 addr 0x0 errno 6 retrys 1 > 14:33:55 I/O error , Primary Chunk '/dev/rdsk/rootdbs' -- Offline > 14:33:55 I/O read() chunk 1, pagenum 0, pagecnt 1 --> errno=6 > 14:33:55 INFORMIX - Online Must Abort > Root chunk down > 14:33:55 -- Online aborting -- us=400024e4, pid=1950, uid=106> 14:33:55 INFORMIX-Online Stopped > > I tried to re-initalise the instance, tbinit -i, but faced the same. > Kernel parameters are OK and tuned according to the release file. > > Am I missing anything ? > > Thanks in advance, > > Sandeep I used to work in an NCR site, and I seem to remember that there's something VERY specific to NCR that you have to do, mentioned in the ONLINE.DOC files under $INFORMIXDIR/release. It was a couple of years ago, 'though, so I can't be sure that this was the symptom. Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bank Bournemouth, UK