Re: Installation issues - Oracle 7.3.4 on Solaris 2.6

I would speculate that either you've not set the Solaris shared memory kernel parameters according to the Oracle Installation Guide or you've set the to-be-created instance's shared_pool_size and/or db_block_buffers init.ora parameters too large.

John Arnott wrote:

> Installation errors occur:
>
> ERROR: The 'CREATE DATABASE' statement for the PDBS database failed.
> egrep failed to find '%create_db_key_words%' in the file:
> /oracle/admin/PDBS/create/crdbPDBS.lst.
>
> The file crdbPDBS.lst reads:
>
> connected to an idle instance.
> ORA-07331: smsnsg: unable to allocate the variable portion of the SGA.
> Additional information: 4
> create database "PDBS"
> *
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> Disconnected.
>
> If you have any ideas on how to resolve this please email me at
> jarnott_at_pdbs.com
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
Received on Sun Jun 28 1998 - 20:24:23 CDT