Installation on NT -Need Help ASAP-

[Eduarth]

I´m trying to install On Line Dynamic Server Version 7.23 on Windows 2000. I follow all the steps most till the end of the installation process then it says "your INFORMIX-On line Dynamic server is being initialized" and hangs there.

I have also tried havig the automatic installation not to start the server . Then I go to the services panel and start it manually with the -iy parameters but when I enter the Command Center I can not move the server to On-Line mode.

I have also checked the ONCONFIG file but I find Nothing abnormal.

Please help me, i´m on a deadline here

Thank you all.

 

[richman]

Eduarth,
Just saw your post - I work with Unix not PC versions of Informix. In the Unix versions you can add a parameter (-v) which represents verbose mode. It tells you every step of the oninit process as it is performed. Maybe this will work on your PC . . .
Rich S

 

[Eduarth]

Nope, it didn´t work. I believe it can't be installed on Windows 2000 nor in NT with service pack 4.0 upward. I will keep on trying though til I get a better solution.

 

[Eduarth]

I have started the server manually. It´s not online though, but has an alarm "Storage offline, Mirror Active".
I used the onstat -d command on the Command line utilities and it says "shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER ´Maximus´".
then I thought I should check the logs and the sagent.log says "19/01/1901 10:22:02 - The database server timed out before changing the mode. Try changing the mode again."

while the online.log shows the following message:
Fri Jan 19 14:19:46 2001

14:19:46 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off)
14:19:48 KAIO: error in kaio_read, kaiocbp = c1ac128, errno = 0
14:19:48 fildes = 264 (gfd 3), buf = c3ea400, nbytes = 4096, offset = 8192
14:19:48 chunk failed sanity check

14:19:49 I/O error, Primary Chunk 'D:\IFMXDATA\Maximus\rootdbs_dat.000' -- Offline (sanity)
14:19:49 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped.

finally the alert.log shows:

19/01/1901 14:19:52 Storage Offline, Mirror Active:7709184

Can anyone help me qith this?
thank you all, you've been very helpfull

 

[richman]

Eduarth,
Sounds as if your primary root chunk is hosed (?) and it's mirror chunk is online. Again, I don't know where you could check the chunk error messages in NT (in Unix I would look at /var/adm/messages to find out if I/O errors exist with that particular device).
How about looking at the NT Event Viewer (found in %SystemRoot%\system32) - it may contain some useful information.
Rich