PMON will not start on database creation: error ORA-00445

From: Jim Lyons <jlyons_at_weblyons.com>
Date: 24 Jun 2002 13:28:39 -0700
Message-ID: <e67857c9.0206241228.19d31ed9@posting.google.com>

I am trying to create a database after just installing Oracle 8.1.7. The OS
is SuSE 8.0. I have ensured that I have a high enough value for SHMMAX (128 Meg) and have enought swap space. Yet every time I try to create the database I get the error message:

ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds

All the trace files seem to be about the same. The first trace file has the
following first 40 or so lines:

/opt/oracle/oracle8.1.7/rdbms/log/ora_906.trc Oracle8i Release 8.1.7.0.1 - Production
JServer Release 8.1.7.0.1 - Production
ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle/oracle8.1.7
System name: Linux

Node name:      etdb1
Release:        2.4.18-4GB
Version:        #1 Sun Jun 23 11:13:49 PDT 2002
Machine:        i686

Instance name: ETDB
Redo thread mounted by this instance: 0 <none> Oracle process number: 0
906

Exception signal: 11 (SIGSEGV)
*** 2002-06-23 13:01:55.215
ksedmp: internal or fatal error
Current SQL information unavailable - no session.
----- Call Stack Trace -----

calling              call     entry                argument values in
hex
location             type     point                (? means dubious

value)

-------------------- -------- --------------------
----------------------------
ksedmp()+142         CALL     ksedst()+0
ssexhd()+198         CALL     ksedmp()+0           0 ?
pthread_sighandler   CALLr    00000000
__libc_sigaction     CALLs    ssexhd()+0

----- Argument/Register Address Dump -----

End of Call Stack Trace -----
Files currently opened by this process:
PROCESS STATE
Process global information: process: 0, call: 0, xact: 0, curses: 0, usrses: 0 No process is allocated. END OF PROCESS STATE

I've looked through past messages containing this error but nothing seemed to
help. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Jim Lyons Received on Mon Jun 24 2002 - 15:28:39 CDT