From: Bryan Lenihan <bryanle@lenisoft.com>
Subject: Re: Create new database
Date: 1998/02/02
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To: Graham Potts <graham@pncl.co.uk>
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Have you check the directory permissions, and the disk space avaliblity
for the location of the orapw file.  You also want to make sure that the
_<SID>sga.def file is not being placed on the disk unit - it could be
taking up all the disk space.   I would have the SA monitor the disk
usage while you create the database.

This is just a suggestion without knowing your database and/or system.

Thanks,
Bryan Lenihan


Graham Potts wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to create a small test database - Oracle 7.3.2 on Solaris
> 2.5 - to be used as a simple test db. I've copied the init.ora file
> for my production database to create a new one for the test db,
> changed ORACLE_SID for my session and simply issued a CREATE DATABASE
> statement while connected internal in svrmgr and after a STARTUP
> NOMOUNT.
>
> This creates all of the .dbf files and then gives me ORA error 603 -
> Oracle server session rerminated by fatal error.
>
> At this point the only file that appears to be missing is the orapw
> file for the instance.
>
> Any idea what error I may be getting here and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
> Graham Potts