I found these three commented lines in my initSID.ora file and uncommented them

##### For archiving if enabled #####
log_archive_start = true
log_archive_dest = "location=/data1/oradata/angus/arch"
log_archive_format = arch_%t_%s.arc

After I uncommented them, I issued the command SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE in sever manager. When I tried to STARTUP I received the error

ORA-16032: parameter LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST destination string cannot be translated
ORA-07286: sksagdi: cannot obtain device information.
SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory

So I removed the location=/data1/... so that it just has the directory path in quotes. Now when I issued the STARTUP command I get the error message

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

I even recommented the archive lines in the ora file but still get this error. I tried to find a trace file to look at but there isn't one. Here is what I found in the alert log for today but it seems to be normal to me . . . Any ideas?


Wed May 2 08:55:01 2001
Restarting dead background process EMN0
EMN0 started with pid=15
Wed May 2 08:55:07 2001
Shutting down instance (immediate)
License high water mark = 8
Wed May 2 08:55:12 2001
ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Wed May 2 08:55:12 2001
SMON: disabling tx recovery
SMON: disabling cache recovery
Wed May 2 08:55:12 2001
Thread 1 closed at log sequence 584
Wed May 2 08:55:12 2001
Completed: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Wed May 2 08:55:12 2001
ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
Completed: ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
archiving is disabled
Wed May 2 08:59:24 2001
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
Wed May 2 09:00:37 2001
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Wed May 2 09:06:36 2001
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Wed May 2 09:08:14 2001
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)