Re: ORA-27100: shared memory realm already exists

From: <gary.rempel_at_icbc.com>
Date: 2000/05/17
Message-ID: <39230E4A.5A20366A@icbc.com>#1/1

I can't speak for NT but I have had a similar problem with UNIX

Try this:
This may be corrected using two commands:

'ipcs'                 - shows a dump of all shared memory segments

(each has an ID)
'ipcrm -m <id>' - deletes a shared memory segment

Gary

robert_kast_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> As our NT server crashed during DB shutdown I do have
> two inconsistent Oracle 8.1 instances. When I try to
> start those instances I get the following error message.
>
> SVRMGR> STARTUP
> ORA-27100: shared memory realm already exists
> OSD-00000: Message 0 not found; product=RDBMS; facility=SOSD
>
> As I spent lots of time reading the Oracle Product Documentation
> I learned that the SGA has to be cleaned up. How to do this, the
> Product documentation did not tell :-(
>
> Does anybody have a got idea?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
>
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Received on Wed May 17 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT