Re: "bad primary chunk" with temporary dbspace

Neil, I too have experienced this when restoring my 7.X engines. Informix also informed me that it was a bug that is "supposedly" fixed in later 7.1X releases. What I've had to do is: Since all of my path's in Informix are symbolic links, I just created another symbolic link to the partition which is my tempdbs. Then I create another temp dbspace using onmonitor or onspaces. Then I change my DBSPACETEMP variable to point to the new temp space. This works just fine, but keep in mind the listing for the old temp space is still there, and everytime you initialize you will get an error which you must ignore. UBE (Ugly But Effective). To my knowledge the temp dbspaces are the only ones affected by this error. Hope this helps, Tracy > > I'm running OnLine v7.13 on a Sun Sparc20; Solaris 2.4. I've had to > restore my instance to a dump. When i bring up OnLine I see the console > message Bad primary chunk '/dev/rdsk/informix_1', although this doesn't > appear in the OnLine log. The log does show that my tempbds is invalid, > and onstat -d shows it marked as down. A "dbspce does not exist" > message is received if I try to drop the tempdbs. > > Informix support have told me that this is a known problem with restores > including tempdbss, which can only be removed by re-initialsing and > re-loading/importing. If only the tempdbs is affected I can live with > it, but does anyone else have any experience of this problem? > > Thnaks > Neil Truby > Chase Bank > Bournemouth, UK > -- ========================================================================= = Tracy W. Nedd = = Banctec Inc. - DBA = = Silver Spring, Md = = tracyn@banctec.clark.net or tracyn@asd.banctec.com = ========================================================================= = ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. = = This posting is copyright and may be used only for the purposes = = of professional study, or the professional exchange of information. = = Use of this posting by any commercial organization for the purposes = = of vilifying another is explicitly prohibited. = =========================================================================