Re: Oracle 9i on SuSE 8.0: unable to attach to share memory segment, please help

On Sun, 06 Oct 2002 18:29:44 +0200, Roman Zhovtulya wrote:

> Hello,
> I wonder if anyone came across the same problem installing Oracle 9i under
> SuSE 8.0 as I’m struggling with for the 3rd day already, and could give me
> some advice?
>
> The very first installation worked fine, but when I tried to install Oracle
> again in the different place, it keeps on giving me “unable to attach to
> shared memory segment”. The error persists even after the complete
> reinstallation of Linux.
>
> I remember that I forgot to shutdown the database before uninstalling it the
> first time, so I had to kill the processes by hand.
>
> “ORACLE_HOME” and “ORACLE_SID” are set correctly.
>
> I tried to start the database by hand with SQL Plus; I’m able to start the
> instance, but when it comes to mounting it, the control files are lacking. I
> tried to create them with SQL Plus, but I’m probably doing something wrong,
> since it always returns an error, that the parameters don’t match the
> database configuration.
>
> On the other hand, when I type “ipcs” to see the share memory and
> semaphores, there is nothing used by Oracle.
>
> There should be something fundamentally wrong here, that the standard
> installation cannot proceed. What really boggles the mind is that the
> problem still persists even after formatting the hard drive and reinstalling
> Linux.
>
> Do you have any ideas?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Roman Zhovtulya
> Database Lab
> Offenburg University

Things to watch out for:

9i was never certified to run with SuSE 8.0, but I have run it without problems.

If I recall correctly, you HAVE TO set the kernel parms as per the release notes/install guide. Use 9iR2, not 1.

Cheers,

dmz17 Received on Sun Oct 06 2002 - 11:40:11 CDT