Oracle Database Discussions

Hi,
I have Oracle database enterprise edition 9.2.0.4 running on RedHat Linux ES release 4. Although the installation went fine and after the installation I was able to see the common processes like ora_pmon started in system, but when I reboot system the database does not comeup.

I am using dbstart command via a /etc/init.d/oracle file. This is linked to /etc/rc5.d and /etc/rc3.d as well in the Linux server.

The amazing thing is that tnslistener is started automatically after system reboot but not database. That is, when I check the status of that via the command "lsnrctl status" it shows me the one database instance that I am hoping to see correctly. But no ora_pmon etc processes are there.

Even interesting thing is that when I manually run the command "/etc/init.d/oracle start" by hand, it does start the database perfectly fine. This is the same command that I am running via the startup scripts in /etc/rc5.d and othe runlevels.

Please help me finding out why is the database not starting up automatically? I have checked the /u02/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/startup.log which just says reports that Listener has started but after that it does not show anything about database starting up.

Below I am pasting the chunk of /etc/init.d/oracle script that is supposed to start the listener and database. Please have a look at it and tell me what can I be doing wrong in this case?

#################################################
ORACLE=oracle1
export ORACLE_HOME PATH
#

LOG=$ORACLE_HOME/startup.log
touch $LOG
chmod a+r $LOG
#

case $1 in
'start')
echo "$0: starting up" >> $LOG
date >> $LOG

# Start Oracle Net
if [ -f $ORACLE_HOME/bin/tnslsnr ] ; then
echo "starting Oracle Net listener"
su - oracle1 -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl start" >> $LOG 2>&1 &
fi
echo "starting Oracle databases"
su - oracle1 -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart" >> $LOG 2>&1
;;
########################################################

Thanks in advance for your urgent help.

--Smb