Re: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available

From: Christian Ruediger <ruediger_at_rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:18:51 +0100
Message-ID: <bujjd7$lmo$1@news.tu-darmstadt.de>

Hans Forbrich wrote:
> Christian Ruediger wrote:
>

>>I've est up the Oracle DB 8.1.7 on Sun SOLARIS
>>Now I am Trying to create a new DB manually as described in
>>the Administrators Guide.
>>I have set the environment variables ORACLE_HOME and
>>ORACLE_SID
>>I logged in as user SYSTEM , on the SUN-System i am logged
>>in as oracle-user.
>>
>>when i try to connect vio sqlplus I get the following message:
>>
>>ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
>>ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
>>SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory
>>
>>Can anybody help me?

>
>
> Generally means you have not 'started' the instance. Or the instance
> could not be started because you do not have the kernel (semaphores and
> shared memory) properly configured.
>
> Try the following sequence from the unix prompt:
>
> sqlplus /nolog
> connect / as sysdba
> startup
> exit
>
>
> If that works, then please plan on spending some time in the "Concepts"
> and "Database Administration" manuals found at http://docs.oracle.com
>
> HTH
> /Hans

Thanx,

that did it.

I'm already stickin my nose into the "concepts".

Bye Christian Received on Tue Jan 20 2004 - 09:18:51 CST