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ORA-27123 During Startup Nomount in 11G on AIX, Failure in SHMAT() (Doc ID 733974.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 07, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.1.0.6 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit)

Symptoms

Creating the database after installing 11g on AIX6L fails with following errors:



Database creation using DBCA also fails with same error.

Cause

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