Marc
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be able to help you out.
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Thanks
Dany Allard
Marc Tremblay wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's actually on the startup command that I get
>
> ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds
>
> after a 2 minute pause with very little disk activity and very little CPU
> activity.
>
> I'm gonna give RedHat and maybe Debian a try to see if Oracle will work for
> me on one of them. Thanks.
>
> -- Marc
