Re: ORA-3113 from svrmgrl

"Kenneth C Stahl" <ktsahl_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3CB36D73.55909EB4_at_yahoo.com...
> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>
> > Is this a new install or an existing install that has been running fine
> > up until today?
> >
> > Does this Oracle installation have a version number or is it anonymous?
> >
> > If it is a new installation, which I strongly suspect, did the person
> > that installed it read the installation instructions on the CD or just
> > figure they were so smart they didn't need to?
> >
> > ORA-03113 is a common error ... almost always the result of not reading
> > the installation instructions ... or due to an inability to follow them.
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
> >
> > Kenneth C Stahl wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone ever seen a case where Oracle is not
> > > running at all on a Sun Server and you log into
> > > the account that "owns" the Oracle software (I
> > > always name it "oracle") and try to run svrmgrl
> > > and get the infamous ORA-3113? I know that the
> > > ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID are correct and that
> > > there are no processes running as oracle.
> > >
> > > Any guesses?
> > >
> > > I've asked the sysadmin to do a reboot on the box
> > > just in case there is something going on at that
> > > level.
>
> The version is 8.1.6.3. This is not a new install. The install was done in
> early 2001. I know it was done right because I did it myself, followed the
> instruction manual meticulously and had been using the instance fairly
> regularly until the final quarter of last year. This isn't the first
install
> I've done on Solaris 8. I've lost count of how many I did.
>
> Anyhow, I had the sysadmin do the reboot and the instance started up
without
> a hiccup. I'm beginning to suspect that it was a shared memory problem on
> the OS level, but now that it is working normally again after the reboot I
> can't say for sure.
>
>
>
>

used to happen to me on AIX 3.25. Usually found something in shared memory ipcrm killed it good:P. ipcs is the command you want to check it out with (does that exist in solaris?).

Pete Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 18:50:30 CDT