Re: Oracle 8 install on Solaris Problem with dbstart

From: James <james_at_home.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:14:57 GMT
Message-ID: <36BB0AB3.524BD9C0@home.com>

My guess is that the oracle home environment variable is not set. Check your oratab file. On my system it's in /var/opt/oracle. It should have an entry with the sid, the oracle home, and a Y or an N. If if has a Y, then dbstart should start that instance.

Gregg Yows wrote:

> I am trying to intall Oracle 8 on Solaris 2.6. I am having a problem
> starting the server (dbstart). One of my issues is the "catrep.sql" script.
> Where is it? It was not installed with Oracle 8.
>
> When I run dbstart, I get returned to the prompt almost instantly. No
> processes start on the machine. When I run a "tnsping" using WG80 as the
> SID, I get
>
> "TNS-03505: Message 3505 not found; No message file for product=NETWORK,
> facility=TNS"
>
> Any Ideas?
Received on Fri Feb 05 1999 - 09:14:57 CST