RE: ora-00205

Paul

I would check to see if the file 'E:\NEWDB\DATEBASE\ctl1try.ora' exits. Are you sure the directory is called DATEBASE ?

Mike
>===== Original Message From "paul" <pjohnpeter_at_qssnet.com> =====
>Hi All,
> I got the error ora-00205 when trying to startup a newly created
database,
>error mesage is error in identifying control file. check alert log for more
info.
>kindly give me ur suggestions to over ome this problem.
>thanks,
>paul
>
>
>the content of alert log file is :
>==========
>Dump file E:\ORANT\RDBMS80\trace\tryALRT.LOG
>Wed Jul 12 16:36:01 2000
>ORACLE V8.0.5.0.0 - Production vsnsta=0
>vsnsql=c vsnxtr=3
>Windows NT V4.0, OS V5.101, CPU type 586
>Wed Jul 12 16:36:01 2000
>Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
>Shutting down instance (normal)
>License high water mark = 3
>Wed Jul 12 16:36:11 2000
>ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
>ORA-1507 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL...
>Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 8.0.5.0.0.
>System parameters with non-default values:
> processes = 59
> shared_pool_size = 11534336
> control_files = E:\NEWDB\DATEBASE\ctl1try.ora
> db_block_buffers = 1000
> db_block_size = 2048
> log_buffer = 8192
> log_checkpoint_interval = 10000
> db_files = 1024
> db_file_multiblock_read_count= 8
> sequence_cache_entries = 10
> sequence_cache_hash_buckets= 10
> remote_login_passwordfile= EXCLUSIVE
> global_names = TRUE
> distributed_lock_timeout = 300
> distributed_transactions = 5
> open_links = 4
> db_name = TRY
> text_enable = TRUE
> job_queue_processes = 2
> job_queue_interval = 10
> job_queue_keep_connections= FALSE
> parallel_max_servers = 5
> background_dump_dest = %RDBMS80%\trace
> user_dump_dest = %RDBMS80%\trace
> max_dump_file_size = 10240
>PMON started with pid=2
>DBW0 started with pid=3
>LGWR started with pid=4
>CKPT started with pid=5
>SMON started with pid=6
>RECO started with pid=7
>SNP0 started with pid=8
>SNP1 started with pid=9
>Wed Jul 12 16:41:26 2000
>alter database mount
>Wed Jul 12 16:41:26 2000
>ORA-00202: controlfile: 'E:\NEWDB\DATEBASE\ctl1try.ora'
>ORA-27041: unable to open file
>OSD-04002: unable to open file
>O/S-Error: (OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified.
>
>Wed Jul 12 16:41:26 2000
>ORA-205 signalled during: alter database mount...
>Wed Jul 12 16:42:34 2000
>Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
>Shutting down instance (normal)
>License high water mark = 3
>Wed Jul 12 16:42:41 2000
>ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
>ORA-1507 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL...
>Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 8.0.5.0.0.
>System parameters with non-default values:
> processes = 59
> shared_pool_size = 11534336
> control_files = E:\NEWDB\DATEBASE\ctl1try.ora
> db_block_buffers = 1000
> db_block_size = 2048
> log_buffer = 8192
> log_checkpoint_interval = 10000
> db_files = 1024
> db_file_multiblock_read_count= 8
> sequence_cache_entries = 10
> sequence_cache_hash_buckets= 10
> remote_login_passwordfile= EXCLUSIVE
> global_names = TRUE
> distributed_lock_timeout = 300
> distributed_transactions = 5
> open_links = 4
> db_name = TRY
> text_enable = TRUE
> job_queue_processes = 2
> job_queue_interval = 10
> job_queue_keep_connections= FALSE
> parallel_max_servers = 5
> background_dump_dest = %RDBMS80%\trace
> user_dump_dest = %RDBMS80%\trace
> max_dump_file_size = 10240
>PMON started with pid=2
>DBW0 started with pid=3
>LGWR started with pid=4
>CKPT started with pid=5
>SMON started with pid=6
>RECO started with pid=7
>SNP0 started with pid=8
>SNP1 started with pid=9
>Wed Jul 12 16:42:49 2000
>alter database mount
>Wed Jul 12 16:42:49 2000
>ORA-00202: controlfile: 'E:\NEWDB\DATEBASE\ctl1try.ora'
>ORA-27041: unable to open file
>OSD-04002: unable to open file
>O/S-Error: (OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified.
>
>Wed Jul 12 16:42:49 2000
Received on Wed Jul 12 2000 - 21:19:32 CDT