Re: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:30:32 +0000
Message-ID: <3BF425E8.294F@yahoo.com>

greg wrote:
>
> This is my first time installing and running oracle
>
> If I run the command sqlplus system/manager it returns the error:
>
> ERROR:
> ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
> ORA-27101: shared memeory realm does not exist
> SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory
>
> I double checked the ipc entries in the /etc/system file
>
> Please help
> Thank you

The database has not been started. Try running 'dbstart' or

sqlplus /nolog
connect / as sysdba
startup

hth
connor

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Received on Thu Nov 15 2001 - 14:30:32 CST