Usually when I've seen that it's because of an invalid or missing password file. Anything in the alert log to tell you more?
Pete "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- Blake Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L SQL> @cr_spap SQL> STARTUP NOMOUNT pfile=/iu33/u01/app/oracle/admin/spap/pfile/initspap.ora ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel SQL> CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "SPAP" RESETLOGS NOARCHIVELOG 2 MAXLOGFILES 50 3 MAXLOGMEMBERS 5 4 MAXDATAFILES 100 5 MAXINSTANCES 1 6 MAXLOGHISTORY 226 7 LOGFILE 8 GROUP 1 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/redo01.log' SIZE 100M, 9 GROUP 2 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/redo02.log' SIZE 100M, 10 GROUP 3 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/redo03.log' SIZE 100M 11 DATAFILE 12 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/system01.dbf', 13 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/undotbs01.dbf', 14 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/drsys01.dbf', 15 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/example01.dbf', 16 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/odm01.dbf', 17 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/tools01.dbf', 18 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/users01.dbf', 19 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/xdb01.dbf', 20 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/users02.dbf', 21 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/users03.dbf', 22 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/users04.dbf', 23 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/users05.dbf', 24 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/indexes01.dbf', 25 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/indexes02.dbf', 26 '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/indexes03.dbf' 27 CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P1 28 ; CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "SPAP" RESETLOGS NOARCHIVELOG * ERROR at line 1: ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE SQL> -- RECOVER DATABASE SQL> -- ALTER DATABASE OPEN; SQL> -- ALTER TABLESPACE TEMP ADD TEMPFILE '/iu33/u02/oradata/spap/temp01.dbf' SIZE 3119M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 655360 MAXSIZE ; SQL> The confusing thing is that I have instances already running on the machine. So I know the install is ok. I can start/shutdown the existing instances no problem. But when I try to clone and startup --- I get the results from above. -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When are you getting the error? During startup? Adam "John Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/27/2003 03:04 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L Sorry, AIX 5L to AIX 5L cold backup copies create backup controlfile to trace -- edited for the new file locations keeping the SID the same created init.ora from spfile startup nomount pfile=<init.ora> getting ora-3113 I have a TAR opened and figured I would check out here as well. -----Original Message----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 4:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How about some more details? Are you cloning to a similar platform? Are you using a cold backup with controlfile recreation? RMAN backup or restore? RMAN duplicate? ... Adam "John Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/27/2003 02:24 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L Just checking to see if anyone has been able to clone a 9.2 DB from one machine to another. I have never had a problem doing this prior to 9.2, and am just wondering if I have overlooked something peculiar to 9i. 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