Re: Creating New instance causes PMON error

From: Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:10:50 +0200
Message-ID: <6l62nr$opi$1@hermes.is.co.za>

bmolish_at_btsquared.com wrote in message <6l24j3$9m5$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>
>I am in the processes of creating a new instance on
>our HP UX 10.2 box

>When running the script I get the following error.
>** SVRMGR> @crdb7UQ4.sql
>Connected to an idle instance.
>ORA-00443: background process "PMON" did not start
>ORA-09922: Can't spawn process - background log
>directory not created properly
>HP-UX Error: 2: No such file or directory
>create database "7UQ4"
>*
>ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
>Disconnected. "

Check the TRACE and LOG directory parameters in your init7UQ4.ora file. It seems to me that the directories specified for creating logs and trace files do not exist, or that the Oracle Unix userid do not have access to it.

regards,
Billy Received on Thu Jun 04 1998 - 07:10:50 CDT