DBCA hangs with 'database not open'

Question

I've installed the Oracle 9i ver.2 Enterprise Edition software on a Tru64 Unix machine with 512MB of memory. The software was installed without any problems. However, while creating any database thru the Database Configuration Assistant it hangs on 46% on "Creating & starting Oracle instance" with errors of 'ORA-01109: database not open' in cloneDBCreation.log and 'ORA-1109 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL...' in alert_SID.log.
I have also tried to create a DB via a script file but this hangs up in the 'CREATE DATABASE' command.
Thanks,
Robert Lieb

Answer 1

I am giving up on dbca and will try to get a script to create a db. Included are a log file, and a trace file that shows the script process hanging on "Waiting for smon to enable cache recovery" during the execution of CreateDB.sql.
Any ideas?
============= alert_oraCUP1.log ======================
Tue Aug 10 13:24:30 2004
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
SCN scheme 3
Using log_archive_dest parameter default value
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 9.2.0.1.0.
System parameters with non-default values:
processes = 150
timed_statistics = TRUE
shared_pool_size = 33554432
large_pool_size = 12582912
java_pool_size = 0
control_files = /oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/control01.ctl, /oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/control02.ctl, /oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/control03.ctl
db_block_size = 4096
db_cache_size = 29360128
compatible = 9.2.0.0.0
db_file_multiblock_read_count= 8
fast_start_mttr_target = 300
undo_management = AUTO
undo_tablespace = UNDOTBS1
undo_retention = 10800
remote_login_passwordfile= EXCLUSIVE
db_domain = TestAlpha.com
instance_name = oraCUP1
dispatchers = (PROTOCOL=TCP) (SERVICE=oraCUP1XDB)
hash_join_enabled = TRUE
background_dump_dest = /oracle01/app/oracle/admin/oraCUP1/bdump
user_dump_dest = /oracle01/app/oracle/admin/oraCUP1/udump
core_dump_dest = /oracle01/app/oracle/admin/oraCUP1/cdump
sort_area_size = 524288
db_name = oraCUP1
open_cursors = 300
star_transformation_enabled= FALSE
query_rewrite_enabled = FALSE
pga_aggregate_target = 20971520
PMON started with pid=2
DBW0 started with pid=3
LGWR started with pid=4
CKPT started with pid=5
SMON started with pid=6
RECO started with pid=7
Tue Aug 10 13:24:44 2004
starting up 1 shared server(s) ...
starting up 1 dispatcher(s) for network address '(ADDRESS=(PARTIAL=YES)(PROTOCOL=TCP))'...
Tue Aug 10 13:24:58 2004
CREATE DATABASE oraCUP1
MAXINSTANCES 1
MAXLOGHISTORY 1
MAXLOGFILES 5
MAXLOGMEMBERS 3
MAXDATAFILES 100
DATAFILE '/oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/system01.dbf' SIZE 250M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 10240K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL
DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP TEMPFILE '/oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/temp01.dbf' SIZE 40M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 640K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
UNDO TABLESPACE "UNDOTBS1" DATAFILE '/oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/undotbs01.dbf' SIZE 200M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 5120K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED
CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P1
NATIONAL CHARACTER SET AL16UTF16
LOGFILE GROUP 1 ('/oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/redo01.log') SIZE 1M,
GROUP 2 ('/oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/redo02.log') SIZE 1M,
GROUP 3 ('/oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/redo03.log') SIZE 1M
Tue Aug 10 13:25:00 2004
Database mounted in Exclusive Mode.
Tue Aug 10 13:25:02 2004
Successful mount of redo thread 1, with mount id 130099050.
Assigning activation ID 130099050 (0x7c1276a)
Thread 1 opened at log sequence 1
Current log# 1 seq# 1 mem# 0: /oracle02/app/oracle/oradata/oraCUP1/redo01.log
Successful open of redo thread 1.
Tue Aug 10 13:30:10 2004
Waiting for smon to enable cache recovery.
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============= oracup1_ora_2364.trc ======================
/oracle01/app/oracle/admin/oraCUP1/udump/oracup1_ora_2364.trc
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
ORACLE_HOME = /oracle01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1.0
System name:     OSF1
Node name:     TestAlpha.com
Release:     V5.1
Version:     1885
Machine:     alpha
Instance name: oraCUP1
Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1
Oracle process number: 10
Unix process pid: 2364, image: [email protected] (TNS V1-V3)
*** SESSION ID:(7.1) 2004-08-10 13:30:10.838
Waiting for smon to enable cache recovery.
*** 2004-08-10 13:35:20.268
Waiting for smon to enable cache recovery.
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