Re: Installation

Daniel

I have followed the installation insructions and followed them to the best of my ability. I ran the orarun rpm and then checked the memory setting the package set up and they seem to agree with the Oracle documentation. I have also made sure the oracle user has been set up correctly as well.

Unfortunately I am new to Linux and Oracle, but I have definately not presumed that I am dealing with any sort of Microsoft product! But when I run sqlplus I am duly asked for the username and password, as soon as I have entered the password and press return I receive the following error message:

ERROR:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory

Could it be an installation error, everthing seemed to install OK, I ran the root.sh script at the correct time and there were no install errors. The version of Linux I am using is SuSE 8.0 Pro. I have installed the latest version of bin-utils as advised by SuSE! Is there anything obvious I could have missed to produce this error?

Thanks

Kevin
"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3D31A3B5.483D413E_at_exesolutions.com...
> Kevin Spencer wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > Has anyone installed Oracle9i release 2 on a Suse linux machine and
actually
> > succeeded?
> >
> > I have installed the orarun rpm etc and it installed ok after I
installed
> > make etc, but I cannot start sqlplus from an xterm, it says I do not
have
> > the shared memory allocated?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Kevin
>
> Did you actually read the installation instructions on the CD and follow
them or
> just slide the CD in and assume that Oracle was a Microsoft product?
>
> Semaphores and shared memory allocation kernel settings are well covered
in the
> pre-installation instructions.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Sun Jul 14 2002 - 17:52:32 CDT