ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

I am trying to run Oracle 8.1.7 on SuSE 8.0 Linux, and I've got the installation done for the most part, but as with all things, there is always something left to be done.

My problem is that when I try to create my first database on this installation(my first Linux installation ever), using an .sql file, when svrmgrl runs for a few minutes, thinking, before it even finishes the first statement, the following comes out:

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel LCC-00161: Message 161 not found; product=SVRMGR; facility=MGR

Before running this, I could start up svrmgrl without any problem. Once I run the "svrmgrl command=@crdbtrad5" command, it hits the above messages, and forever after that it continues to print

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

when I just run svrmgrl alone.

I've checked top and it seems SWAP is not getting touched, however physical memory is very low, down to about 4MB even before I start the DB creation.

Im not a pro, but it seems maybe physical memory could be the problem? Maybe there just isnt enough in the machine to do what I need? If someone could give me some pointers on how to investigate this a bit better or has a solution, I'd be open to just about anything right now.

Thanks in advance!
Jonathan Scott Received on Mon Jul 01 2002 - 06:45:38 CDT