Re: HELP: Oracle instance down, and it can't get up. Root cannot even help.

Graeme Farmer wrote:
>
> Kevin,
> check your diskspace with df and see if there is enough space in the
> filesystem containing the oracle binaries. I had this problem after a
> restore into a filesystem that was too small, all the binaries were there
> and had the correct permissions but they would not execute even when i freed
> up some space. I had to
> redo the entire restore. I'm sure there is an explanation and probably a
> simple resolution but I don't know what it is. Sorry!!

Yeah. It turned out to be a change I had made to the mount options in /etc/fstab. 'user' has some nasty side-effects.

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