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Thread: ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds

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    ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds

    I have a wierd situation on my hands. We originally had relinked
    oracle (8.1.7) under the root user in linux by accident and when the
    database was started up, some of the processes were running as root.
    A problem for obvious reasons. So we shutdown did some relinking with
    the oracle user, changed some ownerships. Now when we try to start
    the database, it times out and we get
    ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds
    in one of the alert logs. Looking at a log I see that the startup
    does read the init.ora file but we get no further output after
    the bdump, udump and cdump locations get set.

    We also get the ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel error
    but that is easily solved.

    I've all over for answers but have come up with nothing. I don't
    believe that it is an issue with the SHMMAX values or anything like
    that because the database instance was previously running ok and
    nothing has changed.

    Any ideas or suggestions on the above problem would be greatly
    appreciated. Has anyone else mistakenly linked and ran the db under
    root? Solutions?

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    Did you check the permissions for the Oracle account?

    I don't have any significant experience with Linux, but I seem to remember similar issues when the Oracle account had permissions issues with the spawned processes.
    Joseph R.P. Maloney, CSP,CDP,CCP
    'The answer is 42'

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    Originally posted by jrpm
    Did you check the permissions for the Oracle account?

    I don't have any significant experience with Linux, but I seem to remember similar issues when the Oracle account had permissions issues with the spawned processes.


    The permissions seem to be fine. The oracle user is the owner of everything in $ORACLE_HOME/bin.

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    does the oracle executable in $ORACLE_HOME/bin have the setuid permission on it?

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    Seems like the simplest solution would be to re-install in a different ORACLE_HOME under the "oracle" user.
    Jeff Hunter

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    Originally posted by davey23uk
    does the oracle executable in $ORACLE_HOME/bin have the setuid permission on it?
    The oracle executable does have the setuid permission.

    As far as re-installing, I'm really trying to avoid that solution. I'd rather understand the problem and solution.

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    Any ideas?

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    Any ideas?

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    paste trace file

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    Anyone have any ideas? I'm still having the same problem.

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