Re: crashed online

Posted in 1995

CRAIG@CHEMISTRY.CHEM.UTAH.EDU — 29 Aug 1995 20:38:03 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Carol, You need to find out what errno 6 is. On my system (an SCO Unix machine) it translates to "no such device or address." Assuming it's the same on your machine, I would guess that one of your database spaces has disappeared. Specifically, it looks like you had a space at "/dev/informix-1" which OnLine can no longer find. Look for this file/device and check the permissions on it. I've had a problem like this before when a customer was using raw disk space. This customer had a symbolic link which pointed to the actual raw character device. One day, they lost the link which caused a similar error. When we recreated the link, everything was fine. Hopefully, this is similar to what you have. If you find any more details, please feel free to write back. I'd be glad to help in any way possible. --Craig (craig@chemistry.utah.edu) P.S. How are your backups? > > we are DOA. Usually running online RSAM Version 5.03.UC1, > we crashed a few days ago and have never been able to > re-initialize the shared memory. This is the last error > message in the log: >