Re: Lack of Semaphores

You might want to login as the root and try to do a
> ipcs -bc

to list the IPC settings. Some other processes may have used up the semaphores from the OS. So, deleting it would be the best option.

Try to delete them by doing a
> ipcrm -s <semaphore number>

-Sudarshan

Rick Collins wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I had three instances running on Solaris. No problems.
> I tried to shutdown one of the instances, the database Closed and
> Dismounted but the servermanager process would not finish , it just sat
> there.
>
> I resorted to a shutdown abort from another session.
>
> The problem I have now is that the instance won't start because of
> error ORA - 07279 connot get the next semaphore set.
>
> There were enough to run it before, why aren't there enough now ?
> Will I have to resort to a machine reboot to get them back ?
>
> --
> Rick Collins
> Newbie DBA - Forever Learning.
>
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Received on Thu Jun 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT