Hi Peter,

run the command ipcs to see the inter-process communication status
(message queues, shared memory and semaphores). If you are not running
your tools as root ;-) you have the chance to remove all entries
belonging to your userid with ipcrm -m id# (memory), -s for semaphores
and -q for the message queues (assuming you have no other apps running
with your userid).

After that it should run fine, I hope ...

Cheers

Michael Seibold

;;-))



Peter Hadamovsky wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> has anybody heard of semaphores?
>
> We are running here a NetView 5.1 environment with servers and clients.
> After a reboot of our server - and logging on on a client machine, it
> always appears the message :
>
> "couldn't down semaphore, user already logged in with this ID"
>
> But fact is: there is no user (UNIX) with this name and this NetView-ID
> logged in!
>
> If you have any suggestions - I would be delighted to hear from you!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>         Peter Hadamovsky