PMON killed, I can't start Oracle

Hi all, I am a newbie DBA, please bear with me.

This morning I accidentally killed the PMON ( hurriedly used the wrong PID ). Now my Oracle instance won't start. I get the following messages:

SQLDBA > connect internal
Connected.
SQLDBA > startup mount
DBA-00342: unable to complete internal login ORA-00472: PMON process terminated with error SQLDBA > The server messages and codes manual asks me to check the background process trace file, and then shutdown and restart the instance. But I am not able to shutdown the database. Any command I execute gives me the above two error messages. What went wrong ?

I am running Oracle 7.1.4 on AT&T SVR4 Rel 2.03.01.

I would appreciate any help. Thanks

Nalini Vallampati
AT&T Credit
Maimisburg, Ohio 45342 Received on Fri Aug 11 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST