this sounds vaguely familiar - but I don't have a system to try it out on
is it something to do with the permissions on the shared memory segment created when the oracle db is started? (hope that this is not just wildly wrong, don't remember this well really)
if you try it without the -c thing? I mean that if you login as oracle, from root, using
su - oracle
and then start an instance from the command line, do you get the same error? Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.