Comments on: DB2 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:42:19 +0000

I too encountered the SQL5043N message after upgrading toe Snow Leopard and resolved it by restoring the db2service line. Thanks Antonio and Yair

By: Giancarlo

Giancarlo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:14:16 +0000

I have the DBI1435E” dialog (says it can’t find supported browser) too and I used several browsers.
Any solution.
Using Snow Leopard…

By: Balazs

Balazs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:36:54 +0000

Michael, you can use db2fs with Firefox 2. Since it is unmaintained, it is best to save it under a separate tree, not under Applications, that way you won’t accidentally launch it and use it.

By: Bill M

Bill M — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:57:12 +0000

The above link to the fixpack leads me to the general download of xpress-C, but I can find no download for the fixpack, just the one for Leopard. Can you tell me how I can get to this fixpack download?

By: Michael Walker

Michael Walker — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:43:54 +0000

Sigh,

I am having trouble getting any browser to play nicely with db2fs. When I try with Firefox 3.5.3, Mac OS throws up a “firefox-bin quit unexpectedly” dialog and db2fs pops up a “DBI1435E” dialog (says it can’t find supported browser).

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3

Any ideas as to what is going wrong?

Thanks,
Michael

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:37:41 +0000

Ahmed, I assume that you mean DB2, but either way, just create the file /etc/sysctl.conf file if it doesn’t exist.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:22:15 +0000

Hello,
I have got a new MacBook Pro. I want to install Oracle into it. The only problem I have is that I can’t find sysctl.conf file. I have done “find” search but no effect. Does anybody know how to fix that problem?

By: Yair

Yair — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:15:04 +0000

Sorry about the mess, just wanted to update that I solved the problem. Seems that the upgrade backs up the /etc/services file into services~previous, and creates a new one without the line for the db2 service. You need to find the line in the old /etc/services that has the service definition for db2 and add it back to the new /etc/services, then run db2stop and db2start.

Cheers

By: Yair

Yair — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:01:35 +0000

Hi,

I’m having the same problem as Shawn. Getting a SQL5043N error. I have /etc/sysctl.conf and it looks fine…

Thanks,
Yair

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:48:30 +0000

Hi Shawn,

that’s definitely odd, I didn’t experience any issues.

- Did you get the error when issuing ‘sudo db2start’?
- Is your pre-existing installation installed as root or as your regular user?
- Do you still have a /etc/sysctl.conf file?

Thanks in advance,
Antonio