Re: Oracle8i/sqlplus on linux problem

Can be anything, but most likely
lack of memory
lack of swapspace
a full /tmp file-system
Linux being unable to fork a new process, etc. This isn't an Oracle problem

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
<sergey_s_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8mug38$mli$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I have Oracle8i EE 8.1.5.0.2 running on Caldera 2.2
> When I try to edit the contents of the last executed statement in
> sqlplus, it just hangs on me:
>
> SQL> select user from dual;
>
> USER
> ------------------------------
> SERGEY
>
> SQL> ed
> Wrote file afiedt.buf
> 24
>
> I never get to the editor, it just sits there and the only thing I can
> do is Ctrl-D to get back to the SQL prompt. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Sergey
>
>
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Received on Thu Aug 10 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT