Check your groups information. Is the ownership of the oraInventory and
the Oracle_Base consistent between VMs?
I don't know how many times I've heard "they are exactly the same",
"nothing is different", and most often "It must be Oracle's fault".
Most of all, check whether the setgid is correct on the oracle
executable and the nmo (??) executables are also correctly owned.
Cross-verify against operational systems.
/Hans
On 2017-01-17 12:56 PM, Scott Canaan wrote:
We install Oracle on one VM. The sys admins “package” that install and duplicate it on other VMs as we request them. Based on that, everything should be identical, and it always has been. Since this worked for 7 other VMs, I expect it’s something in the VM itself that’s different, but they insist that they are all identical in every way and that this must be an Oracle problem. I can’t even get far enough to generate any log files to look at.
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*From:*oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Hans Forbrich
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*Subject:* Re: Strange Error In SQL*Plus
Sounds more like a setup thing, especially in user/group/ownership. I assume you are logged in as the s/w owner and the group matches the group info provided in the install.
First thing I's check - has root.sh been run? (see $OH/bin permissions on various files, especially oracle executable.)
/Hans
On 2017-01-17 12:22 PM, Scott Canaan wrote:
I am trying to create a new database on a new VM. The Oracle
software has been installed, but when I try to run SQL*Plus, with
no database, I get an ORA-01017. Normally when I do this, I get
“Connected to an idle instance.” But I have 2 VMs that return an
ORA-01017 instead and I can’t do anything.
