Semaphore facility inactive.

Question

I have installed Oracle8i on Solaris8 (utra 5, 256MB RAM) but cannot start the database. The error from Oracle indicates not enough Shared Memory area. I ran ipcs from Solaris and received the following:
IPC status from <running system> as of Thu Jun 28 15:58:48 EDT 2001
Message Queue facility inactive.
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP
Shared Memory:
m 0 0x50000e69 rw-rr-- root root
Semaphore facility inactive.
I placed the set commands as indicated in the Oracle guide in etc/system and rebooted the machine. However I still receive the above when running ipcs.
The contents of my etc/system file
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=200
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100
set semsys:seminfo_semms1=200
set semsys:seminfo_semopm=100
set semsys:seminfo_semvmx=32767
Can anyone help me as to how to fix this problem.
Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply. And indeed semmsl was wrongly typed. But before I could make the change, I tried once again with the install, this time with the 'custom install' and chose not to create the starter database. The database installation went fine. And then I created the database with dbassist without any trouble.
As far as the message
"Semaphore facility inactive"
The semaphore facility becomes active as soon as a program starts using it. Until then its inactive.
Am sorry I did not take down the oracle error message.
Thanks