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From: swensel@mahinetworks.com (SteveW)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Help with 9i install problem on E450 running Solaris 2.8
Date: 9 Sep 2003 14:44:17 -0700
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I've downloaded Oracle and have installed 9i on my machine. There was
no previous instance of Oracle running. I get through the install, and
it appears that the server is running in that the processes are up,
including the listener. When I try to connect with sqlplus I get this
message:
bash-2.03$ sqlplus

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Sep 9 14:41:59 2003

Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Enter user-name: system
Enter password: 
ERROR:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory


Enter user-name: 


I've got 4gb of RAM. My settings match what was in the install doc:

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10

set semsys:seminfo_semmap=100
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1024
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=256
set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=500
set semsys:seminfo_semume=100

Can someone help with some ideas on what may be wrong, or a link to
read more?

Thanks,
/SteveW