Re: 8 to 8i migration problems

Check the trace file generated.
It will give you a clue as to what is going wrong

<carlona_at_georgetown.edu> wrote in message news:8h6aqe$a50$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi, everybody,
>
> First, I am running RedHat Linux 6.1.
>
> I am encountering difficulty migrating my 8.0.5 database to 8.1.6.
> After installing 8.1.6, when I try to start oracle and mount my
> database, I come up with the following error:
>
> SVRMGR> startup mount pfile=initORCL.ora
>
> ORACLE instance started.
> Total System Global Area 29061104 bytes
> Fixed Size 69616 bytes
> Variable Size 27787264 bytes
> Database Buffers 1126400 bytes
> Redo Buffers 77824 bytes
> ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
>
> And then it fails! There is nothing wrong with the listener, and
> everything is located on this server, so I don't know what this whole
> "communication channel" thing is about. I emailed Oracle's
> OracleINSTALL service but (in addition to telling me this was not
> covered by that service, not being directly related to installation) all
> they did was give me a cryptic line about file permissions. All my
> oracle files are owned by user oracle in group dba. IF anyone has had
> any experience with this problem, please let me know. Thanks a lot.
>
> Andrew Carlon
>
>
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Received on Fri Jun 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT