Re: What is Oracle doing during statup?

From: Svein Erik Brostigen <svein.brostigen_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:35:33 -0500
Message-ID: <pan.2002.03.13.21.35.32.393574.28716@oracle.com>

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:00:23 -0500, Graeme Barnett wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what Oracle does when it starts up? I'm particularly
> asking as I want to know why Oracle 8 on Solaris is taking around 10
> minutes just to start the instance I've just extracted from a customers
> backup tape. Regards, Graeme

> Thanks.
> After running for 10 minutes it gives the error ORA-00205: error in
> identifying controlfile.
> The alert file contains ORA-205 signalled during: alter database
> mount...
>
> The datafile is present and has the correct permissions. The only
> 'non-normal' thing that's going on is that it's been accessed via
> symbolic links rather than normal directories - this wouldn't cause a
> problem would it?
>

Well, we trigger the ora-205 in several different places. It all depends on the stack trace that was created with the error. I would not recommend using softlinks for the controlfiles.

> Cheers,
>
> Graeme

Erik Received on Wed Mar 13 2002 - 20:35:33 CST