Check whether you have the control files in place as per your spfile.
regards,
Senthil.
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From: oracle-l-bounce@(protected)
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@(protected)]On Behalf Of Rajeev Sharma
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 3:31 PM
To: oracle-l@(protected)
Subject: problem starting oracle
hello List,
I am new to list and as well as new to oracle.
I have installed oracle 9.0.1 on RedHat 7.3.
And now if i do now "dbstart " gives me following error
"error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for more info "
i checked lof and got the following lines there
PMON started with pid=2
DBW0 started with pid=3
LGWR started with pid=4
CKPT started with pid=5
SMON started with pid=6
RECO started with pid=7
Mon Apr 5 14:56:40 2004
ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
Mon Apr 5 14:56:40 2004
ORA-00202 (See ORA-00202.ora-code.com): controlfile: 'ora_control1 '
ORA-27037 (See ORA-27037.ora-code.com): unable to obtain file status
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
Mon Apr 5 14:56:43 2004
ORA-205 (See ORA-205.ora-code.com) signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT...