Re: Solaris 2.8 - Oracle 8.1.6 - Install Problems Please help

Okay. i'm a dumbass.

instead of having semsys:seminfo i had shmsys:seminfo

i sure hope this fixes it. :)

Bill Long wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm having problems with creating a DB on a new oracle install. I'm
> doing exactly as the documentation says and i'm still getting errors
> when it tries to do the initial "startup nomount" to create the
> database. here is my env and what I have done. If somebody could please
> take a look and give me some pointers, i sure would appreciate it.
> my box is a sun ultrasparc 5 with 400Mhz and 256M ram
>
> from /etc/system (and doing a boot -r on reboot)
> ***
> * Settings used by Oracle 8.1.6 Install
> * Default Values from Oracle Documenation
> * Bill Long 22 Feb 2001
> ***
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10
> set shmsys:seminfo_semmni=100
> set shmsys:seminfo_semmsl=100
> set shmsys:seminfo_semmns=200
> set shmsys:seminfo_semopm=100
> set shmsys:seminfo_semvmx=32767
>
> from sysdef prior to starting up svrmgrl:
> *
> * IPC Messages
> *
> 2048 max message size (MSGMAX)
> 4096 max bytes on queue (MSGMNB)
> 50 message queue identifiers (MSGMNI)
> 40 system message headers (MSGTQL)
> *
> * IPC Semaphores module is not loaded
> *
> *
> * IPC Shared Memory
> *
> 4294967295 max shared memory segment size (SHMMAX)
> 1 min shared memory segment size (SHMMIN)
> 100 shared memory identifiers (SHMMNI)
> 10 max attached shm segments per process (SHMSEG)
>
> I can svrmgrl fine, connect internal fine. but then the startup nomount
> command gives the following
>
> SVRMGR> SVRMGR> Connected.
> SVRMGR> ORA-27146: post/wait initialization failed
> SVRMGR> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8>
> 9> 10> CREATE DATABASE "cprdev"
> *
> ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE
> SVRMGR> Disconnected.
> SVRMGR> SVRMGR> Server Manager complete.
>
> Checking the alert log gives...
> Thu Feb 22 02:42:49 2001
> Errors in file
> /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/rdbms/log/cprdev_ora_386.trc:
> ORA-27146: post/wait initialization failed
> ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:semget failed with status: 28
> ORA-27301: OS failure message: No space left on device
> ORA-27302: failure occurred at: sskgpcreates
>
> and the trc file is empty.
>
> Please help. I'm stuck.
>
> bill
Received on Thu Feb 22 2001 - 22:42:17 CST