Re: ORA-03113 on startup

Check the setting of the SHARED_POOL_SIZE parameter in your initialization file. If this is set to low, it will cause a 3113. It should be
at least 9MB and usually more. Try setting it to 1777216 and see if you still have this problem.

Joe

"Michael O'Neill" <mjoneill_at_email.com> wrote in message news:5QoS5.219256$g6.101703319_at_news2.rdc2.tx.home.com...
> <lbudney_at_pobox.com> wrote in message news:8vcn37$h44$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having a problem running Oracle 8.1.5 on RedHat 7. When I try to
> > start the database I get the error "ORA-03113: end-of-file on
> > communication channel". This problem appears to have developed out of
> > the blue; I was able to run Oracle previously.
>
> When was your last backup? Last time I had that error it was a symptom of
 a
> larger problem, namely a sever corruption in the data dictionary caused by
 a
> hardware failure.
>
>
Received on Thu Nov 23 2000 - 17:22:47 CST