Tech Witch wrote:

> I am administering a DB2 UDB 8.1 server on Solaris 9. I have experienced
> a
> strange problem when applying FixPak 4a. Here's a short timeline of what
> happened:
>
> 1) Installed DB2 UDB v8.1 for Solaris 64bit
> 2) created instance and sample database successfully
> 3) applied Fixpak 4a
> 4) attempted to run db2start, but all the execute permissions had been
> removed from db2start.
> 5) Issued a db2level command and the output suggested I now had a 32-bit
> version of DB2.
>
> I'm able to back out of the FixPak successfully, but DB2 is still
> indicated at 32-bits and each time I apply the FixPak, the db2binaries are
> disabled
> from execution. Has anyone ever seen this?

Did you update the instance (db2iupdt)?

And both 32- and 64-bit are installed at the same time, and the default
instance is 32-bit. You can use db2iupdt to convert to 64-bit, too.