If you post a copy of your actlog for the server start, we can answer...
Probably a log or database is full.
I have seen many issues causing the server not to start.

David Beardsley
Sr. Technical Programmer
Winn Dixie Stores Inc.
WWW.WINNDIXIE.COM <http://WWW.WINNDIXIE.Com>
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
judgment."


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Yu Chen [mailto:ychen AT NCTR.FDA DOT GOV]
                Sent:   Tuesday, October 27, 1998 10:07 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