Hi Folks,

After installing patches on a solaris 8 system and trying to start informix.
Informix is not able to look up /etc/services file to translate the service name
to a port number, so I put the actual port number in the sql hosts file. Then
informix would come up.

Now it doesn't allow any user to log on as it says..
12:55:01 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
12:55:01 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
12:55:01 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect
password or user abc is not known on the database server.
System error = 4.
12:55:02 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
12:55:02 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
12:55:02 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect
password or user abc is not known on the database server.
System error = 4.


Any pointers would be greatly helpful....

Thanks,
Zombie


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Permissions on /etc/services?

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"zombie" <zombie_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:144496795.00008400.071.0001@drn.newsguy.com.. .
> Hi Folks,
>
> After installing patches on a solaris 8 system and trying to start
> informix.
> Informix is not able to look up /etc/services file to translate the
> service name
> to a port number, so I put the actual port number in the sql hosts file.
> Then
> informix would come up.
>
> Now it doesn't allow any user to log on as it says..
> 12:55:01 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
> 12:55:01 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
> 12:55:01 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect
> password or user abc is not known on the database server.
> System error = 4.
> 12:55:02 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
> 12:55:02 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
> 12:55:02 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect
> password or user abc is not known on the database server.
> System error = 4.
>
>
> Any pointers would be greatly helpful....
>
> Thanks,
> Zombie
>
>
> --
> zombie

>Permissions on /etc/services?
>

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 23 2004 /etc/services ->
../inet/services

-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 3724 Dec 13 11:17 /etc/inet/services


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zombie

Is the entry still in /etc/services?

What does netstat -a show for the port Informix is listening on? A port
number or service name?

I once had a client patch a system and somehow /etc/services was
replaced with the
default one rather than the one containing my entries.

There was a Solaris 8 patch 108993-27 that introduced a problem like
this by re-implementing stdio file I/O functions, used by many of the
libnsl functions, which caused EINVAL to be returned erroneously. The
Informix bug number for tracking was 171594.

The problem was resolved in Solaris patch:
108993-37

If you already have 108993-37 or later it may be a new problem.

Regards
Guy

zombie wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> After installing patches on a solaris 8 system and trying to start informix.
> Informix is not able to look up /etc/services file to translate the service name
> to a port number, so I put the actual port number in the sql hosts file. Then
> informix would come up.
>
> Now it doesn't allow any user to log on as it says..
> 12:55:01 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
> 12:55:01 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
> 12:55:01 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect
> password or user abc is not known on the database server.
> System error = 4.
> 12:55:02 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
> 12:55:02 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
> 12:55:02 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect
> password or user abc is not known on the database server.
> System error = 4.
>
>
> Any pointers would be greatly helpful....
>
> Thanks,
> Zombie
>
>

For everyone elses benefit...

A linker patch from SUN caused all the havoc...

patch 109147-39 is the culprit. SUN has now withdrawn this patch from the patch
cluster.

Informix becomes unusable with this patch installed.
Heard that there are other applications that crumble when this patch is
installed.

Thanks,
zombie

In article <tELnf.13528$Ea6.9600@trnddc08>, Guy Bowerman says...
>
>There was a Solaris 8 patch 108993-27 that introduced a problem like
>this by re-implementing stdio file I/O functions, used by many of the
>libnsl functions, which caused EINVAL to be returned erroneously. The
>Informix bug number for tracking was 171594.
>
>The problem was resolved in Solaris patch:
>108993-37
>
>If you already have 108993-37 or later it may be a new problem.
>
>Regards
>Guy
>
>zombie wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> After installing patches on a solaris 8 system and trying to start informix.
>>Informix is not able to look up /etc/services file to translate the service name
>> to a port number, so I put the actual port number in the sql hosts file. Then
>> informix would come up.
>>
>> Now it doesn't allow any user to log on as it says..
>> 12:55:01 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
>> 12:55:01 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
>> 12:55:01 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect
>> password or user abc is not known on the database server.
>> System error = 4.
>> 12:55:02 Get Shadow Password for user [abc] failed!
>> 12:55:02 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
>> 12:55:02 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 4: errstr = abc: Incorrect
>> password or user abc is not known on the database server.
>> System error = 4.
>>
>>
>> Any pointers would be greatly helpful....
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Zombie
>>
>>


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