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Informix Error -12077: Smart Large Objects Archive: Unexpected exit condition.

Cause and resolution

Smart Large Objects Archive: Unexpected exit condition.

During an archive, the database server detected that the number of pages it expected to read from the chunk was not the number of pages that actually could be read. Try restarting the archive.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-12077 fires when the number of pages actually read from the chunk during archive doesn't match the expected count — per the official guidance.

  1. A mismatch between the expected and actual number of pages read from the chunk during archive, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Try restarting the archive, per the official guidance.
Examples
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No specific triggering statement is documented beyond a page-count mismatch during archive.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Restart the archive, and if the error recurs, investigate the chunk for underlying I/O issues.
Related Errors / Related Topics

No closely related error codes are cross-referenced for -12077 in this set yet.

The archive read fewer/more pages than expected from the chunk — restart the archive.