Re: ORA-03113 on startup

Check the setting of DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS in your init file. It should be at least 9MB. Try setting it to 16777216 and then restart and see if the problem goes away.

Joe

<lbudney_at_pobox.com> wrote in message news:8vgvi4$umo$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <8vebrn$qt3$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> David Fitzjarrell <oratune_at_aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > To create a clean, empty instance several steps need to be executed:
>
> I have another clue to why the database won't start. When I issue the
> "startup nomount" command under svrmgrl, I get the ORA-03113 error.
>
> When I ran strace against svrmgrl, I noticed that the server manager
> tries to run $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle, but the oracle program aborts.
> (It tries four times, unsuccessfully.) The last bit of the trace says:
>
> ...
> gettimeofday({974908235, 163242}, NULL) = 0
> write(7, "No curdef array", 15) = 15
> write(7, "\n", 1) = 1
> ...
>
> So apparently oracle is aborting because there is no curdef array. Now
> the question is, what's a curdef array? Why wouldn't there be one? What
> can I do about it?
>
> Thanks,
> Len.
>
>
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Received on Thu Nov 23 2000 - 17:23:44 CST