nope. i must have got a corrupted database then. :) i did a point-in-time
restore and that ironed it out.

but nobody has pointed it out to me if this is the case. as the following
message in my original mail:

** ANR9999D dballoc.c(802): Sequence number mismatch for SMP page addr
**      417792; HeaderSmpNum = -1, Expected = 408.
** ANR0361E Database initialization failed: error initializing database
**      page allocator.


thanks a lot for all who tried to help.


yu chen



On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Moir,Betsy wrote:

** Is it possible your database or log are full?
**
**
**
**
** ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu on 10/27/98 10:10:50 AM
** Please respond to ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu @ INTERNET
** To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu @ INTERNET
** cc:
** Subject: Re: need help: server failed to start
**
** I've experience the same thing on occasion.   In my case, it seems to be
** related to deleting of filespaces in ADSM.  My server is at 3.1.0 on MVS.
** I now bounce the server whenever I delete any sizable filespaces.
**
** > ----------
** > From:         Yu Chen[SMTP:ychen AT NCTR.FDA DOT GOV]
** > Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
** > Sent:         Tuesday, October 27, 1998 7:06 AM
** > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
** > Subject:      need help: server failed to start
** >
** > Hi,
** >
** > i wonder if anyone out there have this before. i suspect i've got a
** > corrupted database and intend to do a db restore. any suggestion will be
** > greatly appreciated.
** >
** > situation: we had some glitches with adsm server but we thought we fixed
** > it and it was working until last night. this morning i came in and found i
** > didn't get a report and every process and session just seemed to hang
** > there. i did some cancels but they didn't go away like they normally do. i
** > did a "q actlog" no respond it just hung. at this stage i could not get
** > back to "adsm>" prompt so i did a shutdown server the hard way: Ctrl ^C.
** > and it would not start up again. :(
** >
** >
** >
** > ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 16:33:29 on Jun 30 1997.
** >
** > ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000 Version 2, Release 1,
** > Level 0.13/0.13
** >
** > Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
** >
** > 5765-564 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 1995. All rights reserved.
** > U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure
** > restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation.
** >
** > ANR7801I Subsystem (master) PID is 9876.
** > ANR0900I Processing options file dsmserv.opt.
** > ANR0990I ADSM server restart-recovery in progress.
** > ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 256 megabytes.
** > ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 3936 megabytes. ANR0306I Recovery
** >         log volume mount in progress.
** > ANR9999D dballoc.c(802): Sequence number mismatch for SMP page addr
** >         417792; HeaderSmpNum = -1, Expected = 408. ANR0361E Database
** >         initialization failed: error initializing database page allocator.
** >
** >
** >
** > thanks for your time.
** >
** >
** > yu chen
** >
**
**