Re: ORACLE Initialization

You have not opened the database by the looks of things, instead of 'startup mount' just do 'startup', alternatively you could do 'alter database open' after 'startup mount'. Basically, you should very rarely ever have to stop the database from opening by using 'startup mount', when doing recovery or changing archivelog mode.

So, in summary, use;

'startup'

cheers,

Brian.

"Eric Tanhehco Chua" <echua_at_uic.edu> wrote in message news:924am5$4om$1_at_newsx.cc.uic.edu...
> I am a newbie to oracle. I follow the instructions for installation
> of oracle 8.1.7. I can log into sys and system when I install my
> database from dbassist. When I restart my system, I get this error
>
> ORA-01033: Oracle initialization or shutdown in progress.
>
> I log in as internal and do a startup mount <dbname>.
> It looks like the database somes up (or instance).
>
>
> I try to connect to sys and system and then I get the error.
> What am I doing worong? I don't understand what I am doing so
> any explaination would help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
Received on Sun Dec 24 2000 - 04:24:54 CST