Re: difficulty with dbca on redhat

zak_071_at_yahoo.com (zak_071) wrote in message news:<ece96a42.0311210629.5a6518b0_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hello,
> I am running Oracle 9i on Redhat 9. I am trying to use the
> configuration tool, dbca. When I select "configure database options in
> a database" dbca gives the error, "ora-07446 sdnfy bad value
> $ORACLE_BASE/admin/db_name/bdump for parameter background_dump_dest".
> The directory exists.
> I am running dbca as the oracle user.
> oracle user has write permissions in said directory.
> What am I missing?
>
> Also, dbca should be able to connect to the database while it is
> running. However if an Oracle instance is running, dbca requests that
> I shutdown so that dbca may start it's own instance.
>
> Any answers/hints would be appreciated.
> Zak

The problem seems to be with dbca not understanding the environment varable $ORACLE_BASE. I have replaced all occurances of $ORACLE_BASE in ...pfile/initdb_name.ora with the hard path.

Zak Received on Mon Nov 24 2003 - 15:58:12 CET