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ORA-27154 on Database Startup After System Crash (Doc ID 123905.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.0 and later
Sun SPARC Sun OS

Symptoms

You experienced a system crash and you had to recreate the Oracle user.
Now when you try to startup the instance you get:

ORA-27154: post/wait create failed
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:semget failed with status: 17
ORA-27301: OS failure message: File exists
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: sskgpcreate

You have no other instances running on this box.

 

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Cause

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