SharePlex fails to start with "can't setup shared memory statistics capability - exiting".
---> sp_cop &
[1] 11900
[crmtstrpt02]:splxcrr7:/apps/crr07/splex
---> can't setup shared memory statistics capability - exiting
[1] + Segmentation Fault sp_cop &
[crmtstrpt02]:splxcrr7:/apps/crr07/splex
--->
The variable directory is linked to a mount point that is currently unavailable as evident from the "ls -l" command in Unix:
[crmtstrpt02]:splxcrr7:/apps/crr07/splex/vardir
---> ls -lrt
total 30
drwxrwxr-x 2 splxcrr7 spadmin 96 Jun 20 15:12 save
drwxrwxr-x 2 splxcrr7 spadmin 96 Jun 20 15:12 db
drwxrwxr-x 2 splxcrr7 spadmin 96 Jun 20 15:12 config
drwxrwxr-x 2 splxcrr7 spadmin 96 Jul 28 12:54 dump
lrwxrwxrwx 1 splxcrr7 spadmin 30 Aug 3 22:12 rim ->
/apps/crw07/oradata/data69/rim
drwxrwxr-x 2 splxcrr7 spadmin 12288 Sep 12 10:24 state
drwxrwxr-x 2 splxcrr7 spadmin 2048 Sep 12 10:24 log
drwxrwxr-x 2 splxcrr7 spadmin 1024 Sep 12 23:27 data
[crmtstrpt02]:splxcrr7:/apps/crr07/splex/vardir
---> df -k .
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/crm_crr07_apps/apps-crr07-splex
10485760 778981 9100628 8%
/apps/crr07/splex
[crmtstrpt02]:splxcrr7:/apps/crr07/splex/vardir
---> cd rim
ksh: rim: not found
[crmtstrpt02]:splxcrr7:/apps/crr07/splex/vardir
--->
In this case, the user was going through a process of "split" when using EMC hardware for backup, etc.
There could be other reasons when the vardir becomes unavailable.