Re: ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

Jonathan Scott wrote:
>
> I am trying to run Oracle 8.1.7 on SuSE 8.0 Linux, and I've got the
> installation done for the most part, but as with all things, there is always
> something left to be done.
>
> My problem is that when I try to create my first database on this
> installation(my first Linux installation ever), using an .sql file, when
> svrmgrl runs for a few minutes, thinking, before it even finishes the first
> statement, the following comes out:
>
> ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
> LCC-00161: Message 161 not found; product=SVRMGR; facility=MGR
>
> Before running this, I could start up svrmgrl without any problem. Once I
> run the "svrmgrl command=@crdbtrad5" command, it hits the above messages,
> and forever after that it continues to print
>
> ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
>
> when I just run svrmgrl alone.
>
> I've checked top and it seems SWAP is not getting touched, however physical
> memory is very low, down to about 4MB even before I start the DB creation.
>
> Im not a pro, but it seems maybe physical memory could be the problem? Maybe
> there just isnt enough in the machine to do what I need? If someone could
> give me some pointers on how to investigate this a bit better or has a
> solution, I'd be open to just about anything right now.

Did you set shmmax in /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax ? Did you read all instructions on http://www.suse.de/en/support/oracle ?

Regards,

Knut

P.S. Do not crosspost, please! Received on Mon Jul 01 2002 - 07:09:52 CDT