[ale] Upgrade - (Insanity)

[Terry Lee Tucker]

Alex Agle wrote:
> 
> Hi Terry,
> 
> > I have "tried" to upgrade to Red Hat 4.1 (Infomagic).  I ended up having
> > to do a complete reinstall.  Not FUN!  Now I cannot run my Progress
> > database in multi-user mode.  Why?
> > "Unable to create semaphore ste, errno=17."  Error 17 means "file not
> > found".  This worked fine on my 2.0.0 kernel but not on 2.0.27.  I have
> > to get this going.  It's what I do for a living.  Anybody got any ideas?
> >
> > By the way, I have iBCS installed with insmod, and the SCO shared libs
> > installed 'casue my Progress development system is SCO.  The kernel
> > compiles with no apparent problems.
> 
> I'll take a stab at it.  You switched kernels, and to use semaphores you
> must have System V IPC enabled in the kernel.  It sounds like Progress
> uses semaphores and your kernel lacks support for it.  Just recompile
> your kernel to include semaphores, and you should be all set (I hope).
> 
> Good luck,
> Alex
Thanks for the input Alex.  I did that.  I have SysV IPC compiled into
the kernel.  I have the SCO shared libraries, and I have iBCS running. 
I believe that semaphores in 4.1 are broken.  Period.  Does anyone have
a program that uses semaphores?   If so, does it work?
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