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What does trussing with follow on the startup get ?
"Ora9989" <ora9989_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have a wierd situation on my hands. We originally had relinked
> oracle (8.1.7) under the root user in linux by accident and when the
> database was started up, some of the processes were running as root.
> A problem for obvious reasons. So we shutdown did some relinking with
> the oracle user, changed some ownerships. Now when we try to start
> the database, it times out and we get
> ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds
> in one of the alert logs. Looking at a log I see that the startup
> does read the init<SID>.ora file but we get no further output after
> the bdump, udump and cdump locations get set.
>
> We also get the ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel error
> but that is easily solved.
>
> I've all over for answers but have come up with nothing. I don't
> believe that it is an issue with the SHMMAX values or anything like
> that because the database instance was previously running ok and
> nothing has changed.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions on the above problem would be greatly
> appreciated. Has anyone else mistakenly linked and ran the db under
> root? Solutions?
Received on Wed Nov 06 2002 - 09:49:02 CST