Re: Problems with svrmgr startup

You have no database.

Read the installation instructions on the CD and follow them.

If you post here again little things like the version, the hardware, the operating system, etc. can, on rare occassions, actually be useful. <g>

Daniel Morgan

Andrea Mitchell wrote:

> This is my first oracle install, so bare with me.
> I get an error trying the following:
>
> SVRMGR> connect internal
> Connected.
> SVRMGR> startup
> ORACLE instance started.
> Total System Global Area 56053744 bytes
> Fixed Size 69616 bytes
> Variable Size 39026688 bytes
> Database Buffers 16777216 bytes
> Redo Buffers 180224 bytes
> ORA-00205: error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for more
> info
>
> I checked the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initSID.ora file and found the line:
> control_files = "/data/oracleDB/oradata/MITE_ORA/control01.ctl",
> "/data/oracleDB/oradata/MITE_ORA/control02.ctl",
> "/data/oracleDB/oradata/MITE_ORA/control03.ctl")
>
> I checked the status of these files, and none of them exist.
> Any suggestions?
Received on Wed Apr 10 2002 - 18:22:16 CDT