pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov) (01/06/91)
After months of struggle with the destructive 6.2 INGRES, we achieved Nirvana: a 6.3 release tape. It does appear to be better-behaved but that may only be because of a new problem: our client machines can no longer talk to our server. This means that most of our users are cut off from INGRES, which does not do much in the way of job security for the computing staff. INGRES "support" has been putzing with the problem for three weeks now, but other than verifying that our installation is ok, hasn't come up with any- thing. Anyone else run into anything similar ? thanks, greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org
jean@beno.CSS.GOV (Jean Anderson) (01/08/91)
In <3113@canisius.UUCP>, pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov) writes > After months of struggle with the destructive 6.2 INGRES, we achieved Nirvana: > a 6.3 release tape. It does appear to be better-behaved but that may only be > because of a new problem: our client machines can no longer talk to our > server. This means that most of our users are cut off from INGRES, which does Are you in a heterogeneous environment? and did you upgrade to Ultrix 4 at the same time? Our DEC RISC server was cut off from our SUN clients when we upgraded to Ultrix 4.0 and ORACLE 6.0.29. The fix was to run /etc/netsetup in single user mode and integrate the DEC into a Class C SUN network. This step wasn't in the Digital install notes, although it is apparently mentioned somewhere in the networking guide. - Jean Anderson DBA, SAIC Geophysics Division jean@seismo.css.gov -or- jean@esosun.css.gov (619)458-2727
pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov) (01/10/91)
In article <49311@seismo.CSS.GOV>, jean@beno.CSS.GOV (Jean Anderson) writes: > In <3113@canisius.UUCP>, pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov) writes >> After months of struggle with the destructive 6.2 INGRES,we achieved Nirvana: >> a 6.3 release tape. It does appear to be better-behaved but that may only be >> because of a new problem: our client machines can no longer talk to our >> server. .... > > Are you in a heterogeneous environment? and did you upgrade to Ultrix 4 at > the same time?...... We have a heterogeneous envrionment, but we are running INGRES only on DEC RISC systems. We were running INGRES 4.0 prior to installing INGRES 6.3. .... INGRES informed us that we are seeing the effects of a bug, to be fixed and distributed in the next release in February (????). Since this wouldn't do at all for our user population (they've been waiting on a reasonably stable database for many moons now...), our system administrator attempted a "desper- ation fix" which, for some reason, did the trick: he modified the ULTRIX con- fig file to indicate that DECnet is to be installed. Not sure why this worked: we run TCP/IP and do not have either licenses or the ability to actually enable DECnet in either ULTRIX or INGRES.... greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org