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Oracle Troubleshooting
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
Symptom:
When attempting to start (or mount) the database the following error is generated:
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
Cause
This error indicates that Oracle had a problem processing the database initialisation file. It will normally be accompanied by another error that will give more specific details about the problem.
Remedy:
Resolve the accompanying error and try the operation again. It will normally be reasonably obvious from the accompanying error which initialisation parameter is causing the problem.
This page represents one page of many pages of notes I made whilst working with Oracle 7 through to 10i. I now no longer work with Oracle databases, but hope that these notes will continue to be of benefit to others.
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