Re: ora-27121 means what?

From: <juanino_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 03:08:07 GMT
Message-ID: <91mjek$u6n$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

I figured it out. It was permisisons on the oracle binary. ls -l `which oracle` showed that it didn't have the "s" bit. chmod oracle 6751. Files were copied with "cp" instead of "tar". Thanks.

In article <3a3ce674.2047704_at_125.0.0.1>, lfc_at_zoom.co.uk (Leonard F Clark) wrote:
> 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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