On Wednesday 18 April 2001 16:02, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to get Oracle 8.1.7 working on Mandrake 7.2 for the
> past few days and I can't seem to get past the problem I'm having. I
> installed Oracle without creating a database at install time, and
> everything appeared to work fine. The problem is when I run the
> database creation script I made with dbassist I get the following in
> $ORACLE_HOME/admin/orcl/create/crdb1.log...
>
> Connected.
> ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds
> CREATE DATABASE "orcl"
> *
> ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE
> Disconnected.
>
> After this point everything else just spews ORA-03114 messages. Has
> anyone else come across this?
>
> My machine is as follows:
>
> AMD duron 750
> 256MB RAM
> 9GB available on the ORACLE_HOME partition, plenty of space elsewhere
>
> I didn't recompile the kernel as the values in the headers the Oracle
> docs said to look at seemed appropriate.
>
The stock 7.2 kernel works just fine, no need to recompile.
IIRC, what needs to happen is that oracle must be started in order to
create the database.
so....
su oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=whatever
/ORACLE_HOME/bin/svrmgrl
SVRMGR> connect internal
(enter oracle password if needed, you should not need it as the oracle
user however)
SVRMGR> startup
system will crank away for a bit
SVRMGR> exit
then run dbassist as the oracle user
andsee if that works
Failing the above, just unintsall and reinstall and make sure to run
dbassist from the installation. With 256M of ram it will work, with 128M
it can be a bit dicey, with less than 128, you need to do it outside of
the install process.
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Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
