Re: NT/Oracle Ent. Srv down (1034) following ActiveX VB app install

wow - isn't the system requirement from oracle a _minimum_ of 128 MB of RAM on NT? Even then it is dog slow. I don't know how much activeX apps will reserve, but it sounds like you have a classic memory shortage to me.

sonya

In article <38C67428.666ED7D_at_videotron.ca>,   mrjean_at_videotron.ca wrote:
> hi!
>
> I successfully installed Oracle 8.0 Enterprise Database on a NT Server
> machine with 48MB RAM.
>
> Recently, after installing an Active X VB application that uses ODBC
> oracle is down. If I try to run Server Manager I get the folowing
error
> message:
>
> ORA-01034: Message 1034 not found; No message file for
product=RDBMS80,
> facility=ORA
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From Oracle's documentation I got the following explanation:
>
> ORA-01034: Oracle not available
> Cause: Oracle was not started up. Possible causes include the
following:
>
> The SGA requires more space than was allocated for it.
>
> The operating system variable pointing to the instance was improperly
> defined.
>
> Action: Refer to accompanying messages for possible causes and correct
> the problem mentioned in the other messages. Retry after Oracle has
been
> initialized.
>
> If Oracle has been initialized, then on some operating systems, verify
> that Oracle was linked correctly. See the platform-specific Oracle
> documentation.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> I have 450B available on the partition where Oracle is. Besides it
used
> to work with less space than that so I don't think that this is the
> problem.
>
> However there the second about "operating system variable pointing to
> the instance was improperly defined." Well I don't know about this
one.
> Anyone can help me with this on NT? In other words... how can I make
> sure that NT's variable is correctly pointing to Oracle?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Michel
>
> mrjean.tripod.com
>

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