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Ok I'll try again. Please help. I am running Informix v7.1 under UNIX on a digital 1000 server. We have been running fine for several years, with the 'normal' bumps and grinds. Lately, checkpoints will stop and then online froze, a reboot has helped as a Band-Aid only. The other morning, noticing checkpoints had stopped and the system was froze, I tried a force checkpoint but it froze - waited 30 minutes. Tried to take it off-line without success, finally had to shut down the server. On reboot it froze in recovery mode saying to check online-log. It said... 13:04:44 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 13:04:59 INFORMIX-on-line Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 13:04:59 Physical Recovery Started. 13:04:59 Physical Recovery Complete: 21 Pages Restored. 13:04:59 Logical Recovery Started. 13:04:59 Logical Recovery allocating 10 worker threads ('OFF_RECVRY_THREADS'). 13:06:07 Logical Log 2772 - Backup Started 13:06:07 Logical Log 2772 - Backup Completed 13:17:55 The Master Daemon Died 13:17:55 PANIC: Attempting to bring system down It looks like a bad log file. So how do I get rid of a bad logical log file from off-line mode? No help!!! I had to do a cold restore, loosing a days work, as some pin head switched out the wrong tapes. I guess they can't read labels. This particular Informix instance is small, just 2 dbspaces and 2 active databases with maybe 15 users entering data, and a dozen just browsing, plus 3 other databases for archival and testing purposes residing here. And there is no testing going on, Only I do that. I am self taught and on my own here, befuddled, so what should I be looking for? What could cause the checkpoints to just stop?

I've seen the "daemon died" message in v5.08 when a back-end has been killed. And I've seen the freezing on v7.24 on HP-UX. Really, you should get help from Tech Support. Neil Abel_Johnson@doh.state.fl.us wrote in message <7dr66h$rf4$1@news.xmission.com>... > >Ok I'll try again. >Please help. I am running Informix v7.1 under UNIX on a digital 1000 server. >We have been running fine for several years, with the 'normal' bumps and >grinds. Lately, checkpoints will stop and then online froze, a reboot has >helped as a Band-Aid only. The other morning, noticing checkpoints had >stopped and the system was froze, I tried a force checkpoint but it froze - >waited 30 minutes. Tried to take it off-line without success, finally had to >shut down the server. On reboot it froze in recovery mode saying to check >online-log. It said... >13:04:44 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) >13:04:59 INFORMIX-on-line Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. >13:04:59 Physical Recovery Started. >13:04:59 Physical Recovery Complete: 21 Pages Restored. >13:04:59 Logical Recovery Started. >13:04:59 Logical Recovery allocating 10 worker threads >('OFF_RECVRY_THREADS'). >13:06:07 Logical Log 2772 - Backup Started >13:06:07 Logical Log 2772 - Backup Completed >13:17:55 The Master Daemon Died >13:17:55 PANIC: Attempting to bring system down> >It looks like a bad log file. So how do I get rid of a bad logical log file >from off-line mode? >No help!!! >I had to do a cold restore, loosing a days work, as some pin head switched >out the wrong tapes. I guess they can't read labels. > >This particular Informix instance is small, just 2 dbspaces and 2 active >databases with maybe 15 users entering data, and a dozen just browsing, plus >3 other databases for archival and testing purposes residing here. And there >is no testing going on, Only I do that. >I am self taught and on my own here, befuddled, so what should I be looking >for? >What could cause the checkpoints to just stop?