[expert] Can't create a database with Oracle

[Marc Tremblay]

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.   Any ideas?   -- Marc Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.