Re: ora-27121 means what?

From: Leonard F Clark <lfc_at_zoom.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:15:47 GMT
Message-ID: <3a3ce674.2047704@125.0.0.1>

This may be obvious but, step 1 is to check your profile settings. In particular, is ORACLE_SID properly set?

I hope this isn't teaching grandma how to suck eggs and my apologies if it is.

Len

>Anyone know what the below message means.
>HPUX system, 2GB ram, running oracle 8.0.6. I rebooted an hpux server
>for and someone must have done something since last reboot since the
>server won't start up now.
>
>ORA-27121: unable to determine size of shared memory segment
>Cause: A call to shmctl() failed.
>
>Action: Check permissions on segment, then contact Oracle Worldwide
>Support.
>
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Received on Sun Dec 17 2000 - 10:15:47 CST