Re: help needed: RDBMS V7

Lars Priebe (Lars.Priebe_at_arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) wrote:
: Hi !
 

: We have a problem with ORACLE RDBMS V7.
: We have installed it as a local database under the account ora7 and
: group dba7 on a Sun Sparc10.
: During the installation process we don't have any problems. But if
: we try to start sqlplus we get the message:
 

: ERROR: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
: ORA-07320: smsget: shmat error when trying to attach sga.
: SunOS Error: 13: Permission denied
: Additional information: 11
: Additional information: 4
 

: Could it be a shared memory problem? Calling then programm tstshm
: yields:
 

: Number of segments gotten by shmget() = 25
: Number of segments attached by shmat() = 25
: Segments attach at lower addresses
: Maximum size segments are not attached contiguously!
: Segment separation = -1060864 bytes
: Shared memory non-attachable at specific addresses!
: Default shared memory address = 0xef6fd000
: Lowest shared memory address = 0xee25c000
: Highest shared memory address = 0xef6fd000
: Total shared memory range = 22679552
: Total shared memory attached = 26214400
: Largest single segment size = 1048576
: Segment boundaries (SHMLBA) = 4096 (0x1000)
 

: Besides there exists a (global) running Version of ORACLE RDBMS V6
: under the account oracle and group dba.
: We hope that someone could help us !
 

: Thanks !

I had exactly the same problem installing V7 on a SCO ODT3 system. I got around the problem by increasing the size of the shared memory segments. The final shared memory segment size was 4Mb.

Hope this helps.

Adrian. Received on Thu Mar 17 1994 - 20:00:37 CET