Unable so start 11G instance
967473Feb 18 2013 — edited Nov 19 2017Hi all,
I just installed Oracle version 11.1.0.6 on an older CentOS server (kernel 2.6.9-78.0.1.ELsmp). I made it through the install with no problems, but was unable to start the instance. I received the error:
SQL>startup mount
ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system
Hmm, weird I was able to install with no memory errors..
So I created a pfile from the spfile:
strings spfile > pfile.ora
Edited the newpfile to lower the MEMORY_TARGET parameter, and now:
SQL> create spfile from pfile='/usr/local/oracle/product/11.1.0.6/db_1/dbs/pfile.ora';
create spfile from pfile='/usr/local/oracle/product/11.1.0.6/db_1/dbs/pfile.ora'
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
ORA-32003: error occured processing parameter 'processes'
My spfile is now gone!!
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.