Oracle Database Discussions

Hallo,

I am trying to restore a database backup to another instance in the same host. I have followed the below link,

http://www.pythian.com/blog/oracle-rman-restore-to-the-same-machine-as-the-original-database/

But finally while creating control file, i get the below error,

ORA-01503: CREATE CONTROLFILE not successful

ORA-01158: Database was mounted.

But i am sure Database is not mounted, because when i try to shutdown i get the below message

ORA-01507: Database was not mounted.

ORACLE instance shut down.

I do not understand why i could not create the control file as the database was not mounted. Can anyone help me in this?

Thanks

AGana