>>I have the same problem with you,but I run on the Alpha4100 unix+oracle8.0.5
>>please check the process use :#ps -ef |grep ogms
>>If you find it and do :#kill -9 pid (pid of ogms)
>>login on by user oracle
>>then excute gmsctl start
>>look at what happen

Originally posted by sambavan
This is just an suggestion and not a solution. Since I''m not an AIX buff, I don't know much of the internals of AIX. But looking at some of the forums at Metalink suggests that this was a problem in Oracle 8 and not an 8i one. So here are few questions you might want to run a check on.

1. Are you using the correct ORACLE version?

2. Is your GMS Started correctly?
ogmsctl start

3. If it gives you the error in the gmslog directory, then it means you have not installed the cluster manager on the system or there is a problem with the permissions...

Sam