ORA-00444 & ORA-07446 while startup nomount with pfile(DB installation)

Question

Hi
I am trying to create a single instance 10g database in a rac machine (SOLARIS) I had setuped the pfile and create DB scripts too. When I try startup nomount with pfile its throwing below error.
$
$ sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Mon Jan 7 21:45:19 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Enter user-name: /as sysdba
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup nomount pfile='/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db/dbs/initdrc.ora';
ORA-00444: background process "LMD0" failed while starting
ORA-07446: sdnfy: bad value '' for parameter .
SQL>
Please find the init file contents.
*.audit_file_dest='/oracle/app/oracle/admin/drc/adump'
*.background_dump_dest='/oracle/app/admin/drc/bdump'
*.compatible='10.2.0.4.0'
*.control_files='+DATA/DRC/control01.ctl','+DATA/DRC/control02.ctl','+DATA/DRC/control03.ctl'
*.core_dump_dest='/oracle/app/oracle/admin/drc/cdump'
*.db_block_size=8192
*.db_domain=''
*.db_file_multiblock_read_count=16
*.db_name='drc'
*.sga_target=1184M
*.sga_max_size=1184M
*.dispatchers='(PROTOCOL=TCP) (SERVICE=drcXDB)'
*.job_queue_processes=10
*.open_cursors=300
*.pga_aggregate_target=411041792
*.processes=150
*.remote_login_passwordfile='EXCLUSIVE'
*.undo_management='AUTO'
*.undo_tablespace='UNDOTBS1'
*.user_dump_dest='/oracle/app/oracle/admin/drc/udump'
Already another rac database is running successfully on this machine through ASM. We are trying to use the same ASM instance for this single instance database. When I tried using dbca it was not reading the current ASM instance. Instead it was trying to create new instance. Thats y I was forced to create new DB manually.
Kindly help in resolving this issue.
Thanks
SHIYAS M

Answer 1

965652 wrote:
Hi
I am trying to create a single instance 10g database in a rac machine (SOLARIS) I had setuped the pfile and create DB scripts too. When I try startup nomount with pfile its throwing below error.
$
$ sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Mon Jan 7 21:45:19 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Enter user-name: /as sysdba
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup nomount pfile='/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db/dbs/initdrc.ora';
ORA-00444: background process "LMD0" failed while starting
ORA-07446: sdnfy: bad value '' for parameter .
SQL>
07446, 00000, "sdnfy: bad value '%s' for parameter %s."
// *Cause:  The directory specified as the value for the stated parameter could
//          not be used.
// *Action: Make sure the directory you have specified is a valid
//          directory/file specification.post results from OS command below
ls -l /oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db/dbs/initdrc.ora