can not get my IDS up

I have restored a database and now i am trying to get the informix server up, i can't. I am getting the following message: $ oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization What do i do???

Hi, maybe some shared memory segments are still occupied. You can try onstat -g seg or at least ipcs -mbp (on HP-UX) to see if anything is still there. How did you restore? Did you change some configuration? Hava a look at the message log - maybe there is more information. Bye Andreas > ------------------------------------------- SPAR Oesterreichische Warenhandels-AG Hauptzentrale Europastrasse 3 A - 5015 Salzburg Tel: +43 662 4470 24223 Mobile: +43 664 6259575 E-Mail: Andreas.KUTSCHE@spar.at Internet: http://www.spar.at Wichtiger Hinweis: Der Inhalt dieser E-Mail kann vertrauliche und rechtlich geschützte Informationen, insbesondere Betriebs- oder Geschäftsgeheimnisse, enthalten, zu deren Geheimhaltung der Empfänger verpflichtet ist. Die Informationen in dieser E-Mail sind ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt. Sollten Sie die E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben so ersuchen wir Sie, die Nachricht von Ihrem System zu löschen und sich mit uns in Verbindung zu setzen. Über das Internet versandte E-Mails können leicht manipuliert oder unter fremdem Namen erstellt werden. Daher schließen wir die rechtliche Verbindlichkeit der in dieser Nachricht enthaltenen Informationen aus. Der Inhalt der E-Mail ist nur rechtsverbindlich, wenn er von uns schriftlich bestätigt und gezeichnet wird. Sollte trotz der von uns verwendeten Virus-Schutzprogramme durch die Zusendung von E-Mails ein Virus in Ihre Systeme gelangen, haften wir nicht für evtl. hieraus entstehende Schäden. Wir danken für Ihr Verständnis. Important notice: The contents of this e-mail may contain confidential and legally protected information that is in particular related to operational and trade secrets, which the recipient is obliged to treat as confidential. The information in this e-mail is made available exclusively for use by the addressee. In the event that the e-mail may have been sent to you in error, we would ask you to kindly delete this communication from your system and to contact us. E-mails sent via the Internet can be easily manipulated or sent out under someone else's name. We therefore do not accept legal liability for the information contained in this communication. The contents of the e-mail are only legally binding if they have been confirmed and signed by us in writing. If, in spite of our using Antivirus protection software, a virus may have penetrated your system through the sending of this e-mail, we do not accept liability for any damage that may possibly arise as a result of this. We trust that you appreciate our position. ------------------------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org]Im Auftrag von > JAMIE WILSON > Gesendet: Freitag, 04. August 2006 20:29 > An: ids@iiug.org > Betreff: can not get my IDS up [7217] > > > > I have restored a database and now i am trying to get the > informix server up, > i can't. I am getting the following message: > $ oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization> > What do i do??? > > > ************************************************************** > ***************** > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > >

Check the disk partition used by Informix and ensure that the permissions are correct. JAMIE WILSON <syssupp@simplyfirst.net> wrote: I have restored a database and now i am trying to get the informix server up, i can't. I am getting the following message: $ oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization What do i do??? ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Doug, On attempting to bring up the instance the engine will log messages to the MSGPATH, Also what command are you attempting to bring the engine up with? Straight oninit or oninit -s with either of these add a -v (for verbose) and a certain amount of info will come back to the screen. I find these messages to be helpful when facing unknown problems. Were there any error messages from the restore? Was it an ontape restore an onbar restore, or an external archive restore? You did not mention if the restore was to the same machine the archive was taken from, what version you have, or SE versus IDS. This information would be helpful. George -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Gau.... Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:10 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: Re: can not get my IDS up [7220] Check the disk partition used by Informix and ensure that the permissions are correct. JAMIE WILSON <syssupp@simplyfirst.net> wrote: I have restored a database and now i am trying to get the informix server up, i can't. I am getting the following message: $ oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization What do i do??? ************************************************************************ ******* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. ************************************************************************ ******* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Sounds like the instance is already online. Did you shut it down after the restore? If so, ipcs|grep informix should tell you if there are any stray memory segments and if so, you will need to run ipcrm. "George Palmer" <George.Palmer@ts ysacquiring.com> To Sent by: ids@iiug.org ids-bounces@iiug. cc org Subject RE: can not get my IDS up [7221] 08/04/2006 03:21 PM Please respond to ids@iiug.org Doug, On attempting to bring up the instance the engine will log messages to the MSGPATH, Also what command are you attempting to bring the engine up with? Straight oninit or oninit -s with either of these add a -v (for verbose) and a certain amount of info will come back to the screen. I find these messages to be helpful when facing unknown problems. Were there any error messages from the restore? Was it an ontape restore an onbar restore, or an external archive restore? You did not mention if the restore was to the same machine the archive was taken from, what version you have, or SE versus IDS. This information would be helpful. George -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Gau.... Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:10 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: Re: can not get my IDS up [7220] Check the disk partition used by Informix and ensure that the permissions are correct. JAMIE WILSON <syssupp@simplyfirst.net> wrote: I have restored a database and now i am trying to get the informix server up, i can't. I am getting the following message: $ oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization What do i do??? ************************************************************************ ******* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. ************************************************************************ ******* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Look in online.log, it should tell you what's wrong. In case you have other instances running on the machine, check the servernum parameter (must be unique). If there has been a crashed instance, check shared memory segments with ipcs. If there is no other instance running, no informix segments/semaphores should be there. In case there are old segments, drop them with ipcrm -s/-m <id>. This error also occurs when the initial shared memory segment is too big (for a 32bit release, it should be about max. 800MB). In this case, decrease the parameter in onconfig. Marcus -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Gau.... Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:10 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: Re: can not get my IDS up [7220] Check the disk partition used by Informix and ensure that the permissions are correct. JAMIE WILSON <syssupp@simplyfirst.net> wrote: I have restored a database and now i am trying to get the informix server up, i can't. I am getting the following message: $ oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization What do i do??? **************************************************************************** *** Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. **************************************************************************** *** Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Jamie- I am assuming you used ontape -r to recover your instance. When you restored you database did you try to run oninit? When a restore finishes, it leaves the engine in quiescent mode. You can use onstat -p as a quick way to verify quiescent status. If your engine isdown (shared memory not initialized), use Marcus' instructions for clearing any stuck segments, you may want to run onmode -yuk first, though. If it were me, I'd start a second terminal session and run this command in it: tail -f /usr/informix/online.log That will show what goes in your log as it happens. Then in another terminal window execute oninit -v, to start in verbose mode. This will tell you, if the engine fails to start, at exactly what point failure occurs. If onstat says you have a quiescent engine, use onmode -m (multiuser) to bring the engine online, oninit will only clash with the already running processes. If you have a contract, calling support is almost never a bad idea. --EEM > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus Haarmann [mailto:marcus.haarmann@midoco.de] > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 3:19 PM > To: ids@iiug.org > Subject: RE: can not get my IDS up [7227] > > > Look in online.log, it should tell you what's wrong. > In case you have other instances running on the machine, check the > servernum > parameter (must be unique). > If there has been a crashed instance, check shared memory segments with > ipcs. If there is no other instance running, no informix > segments/semaphores > should be there. In case there are old segments, drop them with ipcrm -s/- > m > <id>. > > This error also occurs when the initial shared memory segment is too big > (for a 32bit release, it should be about max. 800MB). In this case, > decrease > the parameter in onconfig. > > Marcus > > -----Original Message----- > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of > Douglas Gau.... > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:10 PM > To: ids@iiug.org > Subject: Re: can not get my IDS up [7220] > > Check the disk partition used by Informix and ensure that the permissions > are correct. > > JAMIE WILSON <syssupp@simplyfirst.net> wrote: > I have restored a database and now i am trying to get the informix server > up, i can't. I am getting the following message: > $ oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization> > What do i do??? > > ************************************************************************ ** > ** > *** > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > ************************************************************************ ** > ** > *** > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > > ************************************************************************ ** > ***** > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

JAMIE WILSON said: > > I have restored a database and now i am trying to get the informix server > up, > i can't. I am getting the following message: > $ oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization> > What do i do??? Have you tried Viagra or Cialis? -- Bye now, Obnoxio "... no bill is required as no value was provided." -- Christine Normile

On 8/4/06, JAMIE WILSON <syssupp@simplyfirst.net> wrote: > I have restored a database and now i am trying to get the informix server > up, > i can't. I am getting the following message: > $ oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization> > What do i do??? > Over and above the suggestions already made, you can help yourself by providing relevant information so that we can make some informed guesses about the problem (see http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Let's see: * Which version of IDS? * Which platform (o/s and version)? * How did you restore the database? - ON-Tape, ON-Bar, AR-Checker? - Was it a single database in an instance or a whole instance? What information is in the online log file? What information do you get using 'oninit -v'? -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.02 -- http://dbi.perl.org/