RE: shared memory not initialized

You didn't need to run oninit -v the second time, the first time (oninit -ivy) was enough. The second time around it tries to pop memory back in the same place as the last one. Check if the first one is still running: onstat - It probably is. If not, then you may have corrupted memory with the second oninit -v (I don't see anything in the error to suggest that) and may want to reboot rather than attempt to clean up memory. Now that you have done the oninit -i - you do not need to do it again (think format c:), from now on you can startup with oninit, or oninit -v if debugging. Shutdown with onmode -yuk. If you want just tcp connectivity, then change the sqlhosts entry: sqlhosts: informixserver onsoctcp informix sqlexec /etc/services: sqlexec 1526/tcp # informixserver j. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Priore [mailto:tom.priore@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:38 PM To: Jack Parker Cc: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: shared memory not initialized rootdbs did not exist.. I thought oninit -i would create it. I touched it and chown/chgrp/chmoded it. I double checked the enviornment vars, they look good. I then ran oninit -ivy and got: [root@informix informix]# oninit -ivy Your evaluation license will expire on 2007-10-30 00:00:00 Checking group membership to determine server run mode...succeeded Reading configuration file '/opt/informix/etc/onconfig'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs...succeeded Creating infos file "/opt/informix/etc/.infos.informixserver"...succeeded Linking conf file "/opt/informix/etc/.conf.informixserver"...succeeded Writing to infos file...succeeded Checking config parameters...succeeded Allocating and attaching to shared memory...succeeded Creating resident pool 1402 kbytes...succeeded Allocating 10016 kbytes for buffer pool of 2K page size...succeeded Initializing rhead structure...succeeded Initializing ASF...succeeded Initializing Dictionary Cache and SPL Routine Cache...succeeded Bringing up ADM VP...succeeded Creating VP classes...succeeded Onlining 0 additional cpu vps...succeeded Onlining 2 IO vps...succeeded Initialization of Encryption...succeeded Forking main_loop thread...succeeded Initializing DR structures...succeeded Forking 1 'ipcshm' listener threads...succeeded Starting tracing...succeeded Initializing 1 flushers...succeeded Initializing log/checkpoint information...succeeded Opening primary chunks...succeeded Opening mirror chunks...succeeded Initializing dbspaces...succeeded Validating chunks...succeeded Creating database partition...succeeded Initialize Async Log Flusher...succeeded Forking btree cleaner...succeeded Initializing DBSPACETEMP list...succeeded Checking database partition index...succeeded Checking location of physical log...succeeded Initializing dataskip structure...succeeded Checking for temporary tables to drop...succeeded Forking onmode_mon thread...succeeded Verbose output complete: mode = 5 Which i guess looks good. Then i run: [root@informix informix]# oninit -v Your evaluation license will expire on 2007-10-30 00:00:00 Checking group membership to determine server run mode...succeeded Reading configuration file '/opt/informix/etc/onconfig'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs...succeeded Creating infos file "/opt/informix/etc/.infos.informixserver"...succeeded Linking conf file "/opt/informix/etc/.conf.informixserver"...succeeded Writing to infos file...succeeded Checking config parameters...succeeded Allocating and attaching to shared memory...FAILED oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation which looks bad. Now, you said that some people run with out shared memory. since generally i will be connecting from another system via tcp, would i be a canidate to be one of those other people? If i were to give up on shared memory, and go at it via network, how would i change the configs? On 8/8/07, Jack Parker < jack.parker4@verizon.net> wrote: Does /opt/informix/dbs/rootdbs exist? It also needs to have permissions of 660 and be owned by informix:informix Also, when you oninit, use oninit -v - that will print more detailed status messages to the screen while it boots. Of course if you are iniitlizing, that would become oninit -ivy. j. -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org]On Behalf Of tom.priore@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:09 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: shared memory not initialized No not yet. Here is what im getting now: [root@informix ~]# oninit Your evaluation license will expire on 2007-10-30 00:00:00 oninit: Cannot open chunk '/opt/informix/dbs/rootdbs'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization [root@informix ~]# onstat -m Your evaluation license will expire on 2007-10-30 00:00:00 shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'informixserver' Message Log File: /opt/informix/online.log Wed Aug 8 12:07:15 2007 12:07:15 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/opt/informix/etc/ alarmprogram.sh' 12:07:15 Booting Language <c> from module <> 12:07:15 Loading Module <CNULL> 12:07:15 Booting Language <builtin> from module <> 12:07:15 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL> 12:07:20 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 12:07:20 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 12:07:20 Memory sizes:resident:11664 KB, virtual:16384 KB, no SHMTOTAL limit 12:07:20 Dynamically allocated new message shared memory segment (size 528KB) 12:07:20 Memory sizes:resident:11664 KB, virtual:16912 KB, no SHMTOTAL limit 12:07:20 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6TL Software Serial Number AAA#B000000 12:07:20 Your evaluation license will expire on 2007-10-30 00:00:00 12:07:20 Cannot Open Primary Chunk '/opt/informix/dbs/rootdbs', errno = 2 12:07:20 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Stopped. 12:07:20 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments On Aug 8, 9:12 pm, "Jack Parker" < jack.park...@verizon.net> wrote: > I missed that entirely. >Sigh< the joys of going blind. > > Tom - are you good to go? > > j. > > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-boun...@iiug.org > > [mailto:informix-list-boun...@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Art S. Kagel > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:01 PM > To: informix-l...@iiug.org > Subject: Re: shared memory not initialized > > On Aug 8, 1:13 pm, "tom.pri...@gmail.com " <tom.pri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks for you help. > > I have made those changes, oninit still fails and drops me to the > > shell. Should I have to change NETTYPE in the onconfig? > > > here is the output of onstat -m > <SNIP> > > 08:06:22 listener-thread: err = -930: oserr = 0: errstr = informix: > > Cannot connect to database server (inform