Re: I need help, create database hangs

Buz wrote:

> I have
> Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.0.1
> Red Hat 7.1
> 192 MB RAM.
> Custom Instalation
>
> The instalation ended OK, it says "instalation completed" and shows the
> button "New instalation".
> But when I try to create a new database with dbassist, I choose the
> parameters and I choose to save to a script.
>
> Later I execute the script (SID=DBPROBA1 then i put script name as
> DBPROBA1create.sh) and when it is excuting the first script
> DBPROBA1run.sh , it takes a long long time doing apparently nothing, I
> let it run for 45 minutes and then killed -9 proccesses.
> When I run sqlplus from oracle account and I try to login as dba user it
> says:
> ERROR:
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
> Linux Error: 2: Not such file or directory
>
> How can I start Oracle Server?
> How long does Oracle take to create a new database?
> It seems the script DBPROBA1 is hanging, do you know why?

The DB init scripts generated by DB Assist take a _long_ time to run. That is unusual these days ;-)-

I installed the same version on a similar box (PIII-350Mhz, 256MB), the script(s?) took the best part of a working day to complete. There were periods where nothing seemed to be happening. Just be patient...

HTH Ian Barwick

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