> On Wednesday 18 April 2001 16:02, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to get Oracle 8.1.7 working on Mandrake 7.2 for the
> > past few days and I can't seem to get past the problem I'm having. I
> > installed Oracle without creating a database at install time, and
> > everything appeared to work fine. The problem is when I run the
> > database creation script I made with dbassist I get the following in
> > $ORACLE_HOME/admin/orcl/create/crdb1.log...
> >
> > Connected.
> > ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds
> > CREATE DATABASE "orcl"
> > *
> > ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE
> > Disconnected.
> >
> > After this point everything else just spews ORA-03114 messages. Has
> > anyone else come across this?
> >
> > My machine is as follows:
> >
> > AMD duron 750
> > 256MB RAM
> > 9GB available on the ORACLE_HOME partition, plenty of space elsewhere
> >
> > I didn't recompile the kernel as the values in the headers the Oracle
> > docs said to look at seemed appropriate.
> >
>
> The stock 7.2 kernel works just fine, no need to recompile.
> IIRC, what needs to happen is that oracle must be started in order to
> create the database.
>
> so....
> su oracle
> export ORACLE_HOME=whatever
> /ORACLE_HOME/bin/svrmgrl
> SVRMGR> connect internal
> (enter oracle password if needed, you should not need it as the oracle
> user however)
> SVRMGR> startup
> system will crank away for a bit
> SVRMGR> exit
>
> then run dbassist as the oracle user
>
> andsee if that works
>
>
> Failing the above, just unintsall and reinstall and make sure to run
> dbassist from the installation. With 256M of ram it will work, with 128M
> it can be a bit dicey, with less than 128, you need to do it outside of
> the install process.
It's actually on the startup command that I get
ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds
after a 2 minute pause with very little disk activity and very little CPU
activity.
I'm gonna give RedHat and maybe Debian a try to see if Oracle will work for
me on one of them. Thanks.
-- Marc
