Hello Joan, Have you already removed the deprecated parameters ? By any chance, did you copy those init file from some older version (say 9i or 10g) of oracle ? Rajeev On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Joan Hsieh <joan.hsieh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Listers, > > Please help me on this, I never encounter any problems when creating a new > database using dbca. The screen show the ora-32006 complaining the > background_dump_dest paramter, I have edit the init file to use > diagnostic_dest. So I click ignore, then ora-1034 oracle not available error > come up. I have tried couple times and can't get rid of this error. > This is solaris 10 and oracle 11.1.0.7 release, > Thanks, > Joan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l