On HP-UX Itanium, Starting The Database Is Failing With 'ASSERTION FAILED: UNAME(&NAME) >= 0'
(Doc ID 737979.1)
Last updated on FEBRUARY 01, 2022
Applies to:
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 and laterOracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
HP-UX Itanium
Symptoms
On HP-UX Itanium, when trying to start the instance, you get the below error:
SQL> startup nomount
Assertion failed: uname(&name) >= 0, file snlrn.c, line 395
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
And in the alert.log, the error below is seen:
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [__lwp_kill()+48] [SIGIOT] [unknown code]
This is because the machine name returned by uname is longer than 8 characters. The database can be started by changing the machine name with 'uname -S'.
Changes
Machine name has been changed to more than 8 characters.
Cause
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