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ORA-27125 When Creating 12c Database On Solaris 11 (Doc ID 1584995.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 04, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.1 and later
Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software - Version 11.2.1.3.0 to 11.2.1.3.0 [Release 11.2]
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

Symptoms

On : 12.1.0.1 version, Database Assistant

When attempting to create a new DB, the following error is reported to DBCA log:

ORA-27125: unable to create shared memory segment

Cause

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