Re: svrmgrl errors. help.

Hi Manu,
This means Oracle can't open the database. Normally there should be a line
control_file=('file1','file2')
in your $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/init<SID>.ora. If that line misses Oracle will use
the ?/dbs/cntrl@.dbf you are looking at which should be interpreted as
$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/cntrl<SID>.dbf
This mean either of two things:
Your environment variable ORACLE_SID has an incorrect value before you started
svrmgrl
or
you have lost your control files and/or your init.ora is incorrect. Obviously I can't resolve this problem from here.

Good Luck,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Manu Kambhampati wrote:

> I am getting the following when I try to "startup" a database. Any
> help in deciphering it would be awesome:
>
> ----
> Total System Global Area 4398880 bytes
> Fixed Size 39732 bytes
> Variable Size 3863532 bytes
> Database Buffers 102400 bytes
> Redo Buffers 393216 bytes
> ORA-00205: error in identifying control file '?/dbs/cntrl@.dbf'
> ORA-07360: sfifi: stat error, unable to obtain information about file.
> SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory
>
> ----
>
> Thanks!
> Manu.
>
> --

Received on Sun Dec 20 1998 - 00:47:29 CST