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Yes, I am once again having to try and convince oracle to behave, and once again it doesn't quite want to do so.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

SQL> shutdown
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL> startup
ORA-27123: unable to attach to shared memory segment
Linux Error: 22: Invalid argument
Additional information: 1
Additional information: 5898253
SQL> startup;
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 406847488 bytes
Fixed Size 779080 bytes
Variable Size 204217528 bytes
Database Buffers 201326592 bytes
Redo Buffers 524288 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.


Amusingly it would appear the the installer is making the same mistake.

In other news, hopefully I should be getting internet access at home in the near future (dat from BT is apparently Saturday....)

Plug : ewx's with-readline makes Oracle's SQL Plus almost useable :)