SV: Oracle 8.1.5i on Linux - can't create a database!

I wrote:

> I'm installing 8.1.5i on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and am having problems creating
> databases with it. I've made sure that all the prerequisites are ok
(kernel
> params, compatibility rpm's etc). Db Assistant generates errors. A closer
> inspection shows that the errors comes from the scripts it generates,
> although there's really nothing wrong with them.
>
> After svrmgrl is started, the script connects with "connect internal".
That
> works ok. Then it performs:
>
> startup nomount pfile = /u01/oradata/admin/ORCL/pfile/initORCL.ora
>
> Now, svrmgrl responds with TWO messages:
> ORACLE instance started.
> ORA-01012: not logged on
>
> Then the script tries to create a database with "create database yadda
> yadda..." but it fails since the connection to the database is lost.
Anybody
> has a clue about what's going on here!?

I went back and tried to reinstall 8.0.5 but am now getting the same message from 8.0.5 too. As far as I can tell, everything is set up by the book. The user oracle belongs to the group dba, there's lots of available memory in the system, all the shm and sem parameters has been cranked up way above what's needed for Oracle etc etc etc. Received on Tue Sep 14 1999 - 02:39:39 CDT