Re: How to restart a database?

Your only solution is to eithre restore from archive, or call tech support. The solution for tech support is not prety either. Tony Sean Kelsey wrote: > Informix tech support can help - we had a problem similar ( a while ago > though ). > > How are you doing your archives ?? If using ontape then you may want to > restore your system prior to adding the chunk ( do you know what the last > log was prior to adding the chunk ?? ). Onbar can at least restore to > point-in-time. > > Try creating another linked file to the chunk ensuring that the permissions > are 666, owner informix.informix. You might be able to re-initialise the > server - it may come up as a bad chunk. Informix tech support may have to be > called anyway to remove the bad chunk but the engine should still > initialise. > > I'd like to know the outcome... > > Thanks > > Sean > > Purushothaman wrote in message <74ciab$pht$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > >Hi, > > > > I ran into a problem as mentioned below. Iam not able to bring the > >Informix server up. Can somebody help me out of this crisis. > > > > Problem > > > > I created a chunk for a particular tablespace. I associated a data > >file for the chunk in a particular directory. Later I found that this > >chunk had some problems. Since I was not able to drop this chunk using > >the onspaces utility, I went directly to the directory in which the > >chunk data file was there and deleted the file. > > > > Now I shutdown the machine using onmode -sy option > >and then in order to bring the server up, I used oninit -s. But oninit > >returned an error saying that it couldnt initialize the shared memory > >as one of the data files associated with the chunk is not found. This > >is the data file I deleted. > > > > I dont want this particular chunk, but I want to bring > >the Server up. Is there anyway to delete a chunk when the Informix is > >Shutdown. > > > > Anyother way to bring the server up without > >initialisation of segments. > > > >Thanks a lot, > >Prabu > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > >DO YOU YAHOO!? > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > >