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

Thanks a lot for your info.
But: the installation worked the first time and I guess there is some stuff left from that initial installation that doesn't allow any next installation to succeed. Any ideas on how to get a box to the previous "clean" state? As I said, reinstalling SuSE doesn't help.

Thank you,
Roman

> 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

"dmz17" <dmz17_at_nospam.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:pan.2002.10.06.16.40.05.768056_at_nospam.nowhere.com...
> 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
>
Received on Sun Oct 06 2002 - 16:34:21 CDT