Re: Problems in starting up Oracle

In article <C43K5E.Evp_at_tornado.oche.de>, marvin_at_tornado.oche.de (Christian Bode) writes:
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|> Hi Networld !!
|>
|> I have a problem in starting up Oracle after moving to another partition.
|> When I try to start Oracle as user oracle with the dbstart script I get
|> the folowing messages:
|>
|> SQL*DBA: Version 6.0.31.0.8 - Production on Thu Mar 18 18:05:30 1993
|>
|> Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1989. All rights reserved.
|>
|> ORACLE RDBMS V6.0.31.0.8, transaction processing option - Production
|> PL/SQL V1.0.32.0.1 - Production
|>
|> ORA-00445: background process 'PMON' didn't start
|> ORA-07269: spdcr: detached process died after exec.
|> SQL*DBA complete.
|>
|> Database "PYRO" warm started.
|>
|>
|> Where can I find any hints why PMON failed to start up ???
|>
|>
|> Regards
|>
|> Marvin
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|>
|>
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Look in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log for a trace file which may have some additional information. You should also check alert_<sid>.log as well. Many startup problems are caused by full filesystems. Try doing a df to check this. If the filesystem is full you might want to delete some of the trace files.

                            Ian MacGregor 
                            Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
                            (415) 926-3528