Re: Can't start third O7 instance

In article <DA47wK.1K5_at_gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> I (Mike D. Resnick) wrote:
>Hello all -
>I'm having trouble starting up a third oracle 7.1.3.2 instance on my
>hp755. I get the following message when trying to start it:
>
>SQLDBA> startup
>ORA-07279: spcre: semget error, unable to get first semaphore set.
>HP-UX Error: 28: No space left on device
>Additional information: 1
>SQLDBA>
>
>However, I am able to start an Oracle 6.0.36 instance when the first two
>O7 instances are up. (The O6 instance is not up when I try to start the
>third O7 instance.)

After some testing, I have found that if I use sqldba (lmode) to startup the instance, mount the database, then open it, it will startup successfully. I just cant use the dbstart command. Any Clues???

>
>The machine should have plenty of semaphores (semmni=188,semmns=400,
>shmseg=120,shmmax=67108864,shmmni=320) and has 448mb RAM.
>
>Any help would be great - Thanks
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  Received on Tue Jun 13 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST