From: oliver@io.nosc.mil (George Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
Subject: Re: ORA-09872
Date: 9 Sep 1993 15:51:40 GMT
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Try the oerr executable in $ORACLE_HOME/bin

delphi:~ [4]--> oerr ora 9782
09782, 00000, "sfifi: another instance has the same database mounted."
// *Cause:  In non-shared disk systems, database cannot be mounted shared.
// *Action: Shutdown the other oracle instance and try again.  The name
//          of the other instance was dumped to the trace file.



Good luck,
Geo.