Re: 7.3.4 on Solaris 2.6 installation

From: Piotr Kolodziej <pkol_at_otago.gda.pl>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:56:05 +0200
Message-ID: <6ug0d7$pi4$1@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>

Georg Rehm wrote in message <6uflgc$ml1$1_at_newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>...
>We're trying to install Oracle 7.3.4 Enterprise on a Solaris 2.6
>Ultrasparc box (with the usual patches installed, maybe there are
>some inconsistencies?). We've tried a lot of combinations in "orainst"
>but eventually we always get this error during the installation phase
>(with "Install New Product - Create DB Objects"):
>
>ORA-07331: smsnsg: unable to allocate the variable portion of the SGA.
>ORA-01034: ORACLE not available

Have you set kernel parameter shmmax to let's say tens (hundreds ?) of megabytes and rebooted your machine before ? This applies also to tuning semaphores.

HTH,
Piotr Kolodziej
pkol_at_otago.gda.pl Received on Fri Sep 25 1998 - 06:56:05 CDT