ORA-00600, ORA-27301 When Creating 9i Database

Problem:

When creating a new Oracle 9i database using dbca (Database Configuration Assistant), the following error appears when the database is being created (at the ‘Creating and starting Oracle instance (46 %)’ step).

ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [OSDEP_INTERNAL], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: skgpwreset1
ORA-27303: additional information: invalid shared ctx
ORA-27146: post/wait initialization failed
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:semget failed with status: 28
ORA-27301: OS failure message: No space left on device
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: sskgpsemsper

Solution:

Change the semaphore settings.

Running ‘df -h’ showed that the system had enough free hard drive space, so the ‘ORA-27301: OS failure message: No space left of device’ message was misleading.

The /etc/sysctl.conf file had the following settings:

kernel.sem = 100 256 100 100

As the root user, edit the /etc/sysctl.conf and change the above line to:

kernel.sem = 256 32768 100 228

After changing the sysctl.conf , run the following command as root user to enable the new settings:

sysctl -p

Reference:

Ora-00600: Internal Error Code, Arguments: [Osdep_internal] [ID 304027.1]

ORA-600/ORA-7445 Error Look-up Tool [ID 153788.1]

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