Oracle Database Creation Problem

[balamv]

Hi,

I am having a problem a problem in creating a new database on Linux environment.

But my create database command fails with an error similar to this :

ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed
ORA-01990: error opening password file '/home/oracle/OraHome1/dbs/orapw'


Can anyone help me out in this.


Thank you

Bmv

[sambavan]

Is the env setted up correctly,

ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME
LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc.

Sam

[pwoneill]

I recently had this problem with 8.1.6 on a unix environment. There were a few suggestions, such as setting "remote_login_passwordfile=none" in your init.ora, checking for inconsistancies in os authentication files (/etc/passwd, others), but nothing seemed to work.

I gave up and created the password file (orapwSID) using the orapw command (check the docs), and it worked fine. I'm still using os authentication because of the remote_login_passwordfile, but I couldn't figure out why it required to use the password file.