Re: ERROR: ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

On 3 Aug 2003 23:33:19 -0700, steverourke <steve750813_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> hello everybody
>
> i installed oracle 9i on redhat 9, just following up the instruction
> on www.tldp.org. soon after installation, i saw the database working.
> yet, after one reboot, it does not work at all, showing just error
> message - ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress.
> i tried to start database using (lsnrctl start) and (dbstart). the
> only thing i got was the above error message.
> of course, i am a newbie.
> based upon your expertise on oracle, what would i have missed and
> could you tell me?
>
> thank you
>
> steve
>

I don't want to be proscriptive about this, but Oracle simply does not work properly on RH9. The posts here on the subject have been lengthy, convoluted, and when someone posted that 'of course it worked', they went on to admit that the Management Server wouldn't start up properly. Either that or the Database Configuration Assistant wouldn't launch. Or something else indicating that, basically, Oracle just doesn't work as advertised on RH9.

Switch back to RH8, where it all works just fine, except for one minor linking problem at the 86% mark of the linking phase of the original install -and even that is fixed with just one quick edit of a particular .mk file. After which everything works 'as advertised'.

Apparently, RH9 broke quite a few applications by including new C libraries. Oracle's not the only thing affected.

~QM Received on Mon Aug 04 2003 - 06:39:54 CDT