Hello,
My OS is Ubuntu 16.04 and oracle 11gR2 just newly installed.
SQL> connect / as sysdba
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> ALTER USER sys IDENTIFIED BY "password";
ALTER USER sys IDENTIFIED BY "passwords"
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
Process ID: 0
Session ID: 0 Serial number: 0
SQL> startup
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/dbs/initXE.ora'
SQL> startup open
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/dbs/initXE.ora'
SQL>
Ubuntu command line:
cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/dbs/
ll
total 4.0K
-rwx------ 1 root root 559 Aug 30 22:27 initXE_DEFAULT.ora*
`/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/dbs/initXE.ora` file not exists.
root@linux ~# updatedb
root@linux ~# locate alert_XE.log
root@linux ~#
also not able to find log file
lsnrctl start
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on 30-AUG-2018 23:28:55
Copyright (c) 1991, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Starting /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/bin/tnslsnr: please wait...
TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
System parameter file is /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/network/admin/listener.ora
Log messages written to /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/log/diag/tnslsnr/linux/listener/alert/log.xml
Error listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC_FOR_XE)))
TNS-12555: TNS:permission denied
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00525: Insufficient privilege for operation
Linux Error: 1: Operation not permitted
Listener failed to start. See the error message(s) above...
please advise
Thanks in anticipation