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Kueh

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Apr 14, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/14/99
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Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a problem with ontape command with Informix
IDS 7.30 UC5 on Linux ? Below is the error message that I am getting.
Thanks.

Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernel 2.1.132 on an i586

ontape -s
access sysmaster database (SQL:-349 ISAM:0)

Program over.


Regards,
Kueh.

thillick

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Apr 14, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/14/99
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Sounds like your sysmaster database is missing, or has become corrupt. Try
running $INFORMIXDIR/etc/buildsmi to rebuild the sysmaster database.

Terry Hillick
CSCSi

Art S. Kagel

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Apr 14, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/14/99
to Kueh
Kueh wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a problem with ontape command with Informix
> IDS 7.30 UC5 on Linux ? Below is the error message that I am getting.
> Thanks.
>
> Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
> Kernel 2.1.132 on an i586
>
> ontape -s
> access sysmaster database (SQL:-349 ISAM:0)

Error -349 is database not yet selected. Are there any messages in the
online message log (onstat -m) about the engine not having created the
sysmaster database successfully? That would make sense. If so run the
script: $INFORMIXDIR/etc/buildsmi as user Informix to recreate it then
check the log again to make sure it was successfully created.

Art S. Kagel

David Kosenko

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Apr 14, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/14/99
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On 14 Apr 1999 09:10:16 +1000, "Kueh" <ku...@ims.com.au> wrote:
>ontape -s
>access sysmaster database (SQL:-349 ISAM:0)

Are you running ontape as user informix? You should be.

Dave


Kueh

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Apr 15, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/15/99
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Hi,

Yes the buildsmi script file has a problem in it. The original
sysmaster.sql file would not load when it hit the statement below.

database sysmaster exclusive;

so after some debugging I changed the statement to

database sysmaster@servername exclusive;

That does the trick. The next step was to reinitialize the rootdbs and the
sysmaster and sysutils was created without any error message but the
problem of not being able to backup is still a problem. The two
environment variables INFORMIXDIR and INFORMIXSERVER is setup properly.
What else could be wrong ?

Regards,
Kueh.


thillick <thil...@cscsi.com> wrote in article
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> Sounds like your sysmaster database is missing, or has become corrupt.
Try
> running $INFORMIXDIR/etc/buildsmi to rebuild the sysmaster database.
>
> Terry Hillick
> CSCSi
>

> Kueh wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is a problem with ontape command with
Informix
> > IDS 7.30 UC5 on Linux ? Below is the error message that I am getting.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
> > Kernel 2.1.132 on an i586
> >

> > ontape -s
> > access sysmaster database (SQL:-349 ISAM:0)
> >

> > Program over.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kueh.
>
>
>

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