Dear All,

I have installed Informix Dynamic Server 9.4 on RedHat Linux 9
when i start the database using the command oninit -v i get the following error, pls help.

Cannot Open Primary Chunk '/wager/rootdbs', errno = 2
oninit: Cannot open chunk '/wager/rootdbs'. errno = 2
oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization

thanks in advance

Praveen .

I'm assuming that you are trying to bring up the instance the very first time?

You need the command "oninit -i" to initialize the rootdbs.

I'll also assume that the dbspace you are pointing to, '/wager/rootdbs', exists as either a cookied file or a raw device.

Make sure that the path to the rootdbs is correct
and the permisions are 660 and the user and group is informix:informix

Cheers

Are you using "cooked" dbspaces? or raw?

if you do an 'ls -l /wager/rootdbs' - does the file exist?