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ISM will not start - waiting for daemons

Posted By: MICHAEL LEHR
Date: Wednesday, 10 January 2007, at 10:33 a.m.

Hello everyone! I am a new member and happy to be part of this forum.
I'm receiving the following at the command line when attempting to start ISM.
ISM was working on this server in the past:

Informix Dynamic Server 9.30.FC1
SUN 280R running Solaris 8

# ./ism_startup
ism_startup: is starting the ISM daemons.
${0##*/}: Still waiting for ISM daemons to become available...
${0##*/}: Still waiting for ISM daemons to become available...
ism_startup: ISM server not running after 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

daemon.log:
01/09/07 19:50:36 nsrd: server notice: started
01/09/07 19:50:37 nsrmmdbd: error adding btrees to ss (an invalid slot number)
01/09/07 19:50:37 nsrmmdbd: WISS error, an invalid slot number
01/09/07 19:50:37 nsrd: unable to start nsrmmdbd
01/09/07 19:50:37 nsrd: shutting down
01/09/07 19:50:37 nsrd: successful shutdown
01/09/07 19:50:38 nsrexecd: Can't initialize configuration file /nsr/res/nsrla.res
01/09/07 19:50:38 nsrexecd: SYSTEM error, resource file /nsr/res/nsrla.res already
in use; check for another copy of this server
already running
01/09/07 19:50:38 nsrexecd: error initializing resource file.
01/09/07 19:53:44 nsrd: server notice: started
01/09/07 19:53:45 nsrmmdbd: error adding btrees to ss (an invalid slot number)
01/09/07 19:53:45 nsrmmdbd: WISS error, an invalid slot number
01/09/07 19:53:45 nsrd: unable to start nsrmmdbd
01/09/07 19:53:45 nsrd: shutting down
01/09/07 19:53:45 nsrd: successful shutdown

Research has indicated that I may be able to fix ISM by performing the following:

1. Renaming the mm directory

2. Redoing the ism_startup -init

3. ism_catalog -recreate_from device.

Has anyone done this? What about moving the /opt/informix9.3/ism/mm/mmvolume directory to another name? It appears that this may have been done previously by another DBA/admin:

/opt/informix9.3/ism/mm
# ls -l -a
total 10
drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 512 Jan 8 04:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root other 512 Sep 14 2002 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 04:06 .cmprssd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 54 Sep 14 2002 .nsr
drwx------ 2 root root 512 Jan 9 19:53 mmvolume
drwx------ 2 root other 512 Jul 29 08:36 mmvolume.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Jan 8 04:15 nsrim.prv
# cd mmvolume
# ls -l -a
total 724
drwx------ 2 root root 512 Jan 9 19:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 512 Jan 8 04:15 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 8192 Jan 9 19:53 VolHdr
-rw------- 1 root root 32768 Jan 9 19:53 ss
-rw------- 1 root root 32768 Jan 9 19:53 ss.0
-rw------- 1 root root 32768 Jan 9 19:53 vol
-rw------- 1 root root 16384 Jan 8 10:10 vol.0
-rw------- 1 root root 32768 Jan 8 10:10 vol_i0
-rw------- 1 root root 16384 Jan 8 10:11 vol_i0.0
-rw------- 1 root root 32768 Jan 8 10:11 vol_i1
-rw------- 1 root root 16384 Jan 8 10:11 vol_i1.0
-rw------- 1 root root 32768 Jan 8 10:10 vol_i2
-rw------- 1 root root 16384 Jan 8 10:11 vol_i2.0
-rw------- 1 root root 32768 Jan 8 10:10 vol_i3
-rw------- 1 root root 16384 Jan 8 10:11 vol_i3.0
-rw------- 1 root root 32768 Jan 8 10:11 vol_i4
-rw------- 1 root root 16384 Jan 8 10:11 vol_i4.0
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

Messages In This Thread

• ISM will not start - waiting for daemons
  MICHAEL LEHR -- Wednesday, 10 January 2007, at 10:33 a.m.
  • Re: ISM will not start - waiting for daemons
    Robert Seifert -- Wednesday, 10 January 2007, at 3:19 p.m.
    • Re: ISM will not start - waiting for daemons
      MICHAEL LEHR -- Thursday, 11 January 2007, at 10:10 a.m.

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