Further adventures with Oracle database - ORA-01078 and LRM-00109

Having installed Oracle 12c ( 12.2.0.1.0 ) today, I was somewhat concerned when I tried to start my database: -

sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Production on Mon Jul 24 14:04:56 2017

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Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_1/dbs/initorcl.ora'
SQL> quit
Disconnected

I checked the offending directory: -

ls $ORACLE_HOME/dbs

init.ora

which made me think …..

So I re-ran the dbca command to see what was going on.

Guess what ?

I didn't have a database; I'd obviously installed the product BUT not created a database.

Once I created one, all is well: -

ls $ORACLE_HOME/dbs

hc_orcl.dat  init.ora  lkORCL  orapworcl  spfileorcl.ora

sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Production on Mon Jul 24 14:53:27 2017

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Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production

SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production