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Cannot Open Primary Chunk <chunk path>, errno = 6

Troubleshooting


Problem

Executing oninit to bring up informix server fails with following error in the online.log. Cannot Open Primary Chunk , errno = 6

Symptom

Cannot bring up informix server. It fails with following message in the online.log:


      11:22:33  IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC7 Software Serial
      Number AAA#B000000
      11:22:33  Cannot Open Primary Chunk '/dbspace_links/L120dbs_01', errno = 6
      11:22:33  oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization
      11:22:33  IBM Informix Dynamic Server Stopped.
      11:22:33  mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments

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Modified date:
03 June 2021

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