lockIPCInit failed, No space left on device

Setting up a new enterprise HP-UX 11.0 64 bit with Oracle 8.1.7 64 bit and OW XE. We have 4 GB of memory. The SGA of the database is about 1.4 GB. I can start the OW services on the enterprise server. But if I try to run a ube, I gettting the following messages in the server jde log files:

5692 Fri Nov 22 10:18:41 2002 ipcsysv.c292
IPC1200007 - lockIPCInit failed, last errno=28: No space left on device.

5692 Fri Nov 22 10:18:41 2002 ipcsysv.c295
IPC1200011 - Check OS kernel parameters semmni and semmns.

5692 Fri Nov 22 10:18:41 2002 ipcpub.c322
IPC1400001 - IPC routine called without successful IPC initialization.

5692 Fri Nov 22 10:18:41 2002 ipcpub.c242
IPC1400001 - IPC routine called without successful IPC initialization.

5692 Fri Nov 22 10:18:41 2002 ipcpub.c2762
ipcSawInit: Error: ipcCreateResource 27

We have increased semmni from 3320 to 7000 and semmns from 6640 to 13000. But still get the same errors.

I have a call into JDE support. But I thought I'd check if anyone has any suggestions on what the value of these kernel parameters should be.

Maria

it is possible you have some other software overlapping hte IPC range JDE is using... JDE by default uses 1000 IPC resource statring at the IPC key in the INI file. do an 'ipcs -a' and see if other processes are in the range JDE wants.

The JDE knowledge garden document "Tuning Oracle on Unix Platforms" maybe
helpful. Hope this helps.

Dave Rammer
Sheboygan County IS Dept

XE U/2 with SP16 / Oracle 8.1.7.3 / Ent: HP-UX 11i / Appl: W2K /
Citrix Metaframe 1.8

Maria,

did you change all kernel-parameters for Oracle? I changed last week from W2K to HP and not all parameters where set properly.
You should also change to SP20+, we have Oracle 9i and with the base Sp-leverl we were not able to run either porttest or to start OneWorld. With SP20+C1 no preoblems
Check also the space on your JDE-mountpoint.
Regards

Herbert, We are on SP20G. I need to update my signature.

Dave, We did find some documentation on the KG the was helpful. The most helpful was in the Server & Workstation Admin Guide.

We are now past the lockIPCinit failed error. We ended up tweeking a lot of our hp-ux kernel parameters. The very nice unix sys admin at the City of Thorton sent us their kernel parameters. So between the OW system & Workstation admin guide and another sites kernel parameters we where able to adjust ours accordingly.

Thanks Maria