Problem(Abstract)
After installing the "Critical Patch Update October 2013 for Solaris 11" (ORACLE SOLARIS 11.1.12.5.0 REPO ISO IMAGE) on your Oracle Solaris 11 system your Informix Server instance may fail to start
Symptom
During the Informix instance start you will see following
types of error messages in the instance message log and the instance will not
come online:
13:23:26 Assert Failed: No Exception
Handler
13:23:26 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version
11.70.FC7W2
13:23:26 Who: Thread(134, kaio, 0, 16)
File: mtex.c Line: 490
13:23:26 Results: Exception Caught. Type:
MT_EX_OS, Context: mem
13:23:26 Action: Please notify IBM Informix
Technical Support.
13:23:26 See Also: /tmp/af.46e0eae,
shmem.46e0eae.0
The af.<xxxxxx> file will contain an empty
stack trace of the kaio thread; the si_signo value of 11 will indicate the SEGV
signal received by the oninit process:
13:23:26 Stack for thread:
134 kaio
base: 0x0000000146f02000
len:
69632
pc: 0x0000000101103350
tos:
0x00000001019ff751
state: running
vp:
22
ucontext: 0x0000000101a00a20
siginfo:
0x0000000101a00d00
si_signo: 11 si_code: 1 si_errno: 0
si_pid: 0 si_uid: 0
si_addr: 0x0000000001057d68
si_value: 0x0000000000000000 si_fd: 0
Cause
One of the possible causes of the problem is following Oracle Solaris defect:
15815250 : SUNBT7197575 AUTOMOUNTD FAILS TO MOUNT LDAP
USERS HOME DIR on SOLARIS 10 BRANDED
Resolving the problem
Contact the Oracle Solaris support and ask them for following fix:
IDR-fix idr781.1 for Solaris 11.1.8.4
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21655799&myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSGU8G&mync=E