Re: Problem during installation with control files

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:12:24 +0200
Message-ID: <tsorbvf4dscta9@corp.supernews.com>

"tsfteam" <fishbone78_at_inwind.it> wrote in message news:3dafe089.0110160006.aa92601_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi, i had some problems during installation of Oracle 8.1.7 on an
> Intel Solaris 8. Everything worked correctly eccept for the creation
> of control files, so i tried to create them after installation from
> SVRMGR with the 'CREATE CONTROLFILE' command, but i have this error:
>
> ORA-01503: CREATE CONTROLFILE failed
> ORA-01565: error in identifying file '?/dbs/dbs1@.dbf'
> ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
> Intel SVR4 UNIX Error: 2: No such file or directory
> Additional information: 3
>
> What should i do?

Check whether you have ORACLE_HOME (matches the ?) and ORACLE_SID (matches the @)
set
(and of course read the manual before creating a database)

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

Sybrand Received on Tue Oct 16 2001 - 12:12:24 CDT