Re: oninit startup failure

MFLD wrote:
In response to Guy,

Some asked details about my case:

Is this the first time you've tried initializing after installation or is this an existing instance which has just stopped working?
---> It is the first time I initialize the server


As Ben points out in his response, for to set up a new instance, as after a new installation, you need to also initialize disk structures. Make sure that the disk file named in ROOTDBS in the ONCONFIG file exists and add the '-iy' flags to the oninit startup. VERY IMPORTANT the '-i' flag will wipe out the contents of the ROOTDBS (making any existing data inaccessible) so you ONLY want to do this once at the first startup of a new instance on a machine. From then on the '-i' MUST be removed.

Art S. Kagel

How much physical memory on this machine?
---> 2 GB of physical memory

Disk space ok?
---> Yes, more than 30 GB free

What is the exact IDS 10 version?
---> 10.00.TC3

Are you running this directly or via Remote Desktop or some other remote control software?
---> Running oninit directly on the command line

Assuming you're running oninit as user informix, is informix an Administrator on this machine?
---> Yes, running oninit as Informix user, member of the Administrators and Informix-Admin groups

Correction: the exact low level error message is:
create_vp : cannot allocate semaphore

Since it looks like a resource allocation problem, I enabled the Windows audit to monitor the access to the system objects, and I see no failed event in the security log.

I also spied the oninit process with FileMon and RegMon, but I did not detect any problem while accessing the files or the registry.

Any additional check to do ?

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