Re: ORA-07429 Error

In article 315lerINN1mb_at_rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de, c3055_at_rphc5 (Alexander Dauensteiner) writes:
>Configuration: SUN Sparc10 with 32MB memory and Solaris 2.3
>
>After adjusting /etc/system like this:
>set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=8388608
>set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=15
>set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=400
>set shmsys:shminfo_semmns=200
>set shmsys:shminfo_semmni=100
>set shmsys:shminfo_semmsl=100
>
>the installation of Version 7.0.16.4 worked fine.
>Also sqldba did what is was supposed to do.
>
>But after a reboot it is no longer possible to connect to the database. The
>errors are as follows:
>ORA-01034:ORACLE not available
>ORA-07429:smgsg:shmget() failed to get segment
>
>So what do do? Any suggestions?
>
>Alex

It sounds like you simply never brought up the database, but if that is not the case - we had a problem on certain machines that required these two lines further up in the /etc/system file:

forceload: sys/semsys
forceload: sys/shmsys

Good luck!

Sincerely,

Martin Farber
Independent Oracle Consultant

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