Quote Originally Posted by slejf
Had a similar problem. My trace files were full of ORA-01242 errors. Solved by setting DISK_ASYNCH_IO=FALSE. Probably because of SafeGuard Easy, asynchronous IOs did not work. DBCA returned error messages like ORA-03113 and ORA-03114
Did you notice that this post was from 2003?
I'm guessing that the issue was reolved.