Fix: “ORA-01031: insufficient privileges” while Starting Oracle Database using dbstart command
You encounter ORA-01031: insufficient privileges error: [root@ProdDB01 ~]# dbstart SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.6.0.0 – Production on Thu Mar 20 11:54:55 2014 (c) Copyright 1999 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. SQL> ERROR: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges SQL> [3]+ Stopped dbstart [root@ProdDB01 ~]# Fix: Login as Oracle user or SysDBA. Usually, many of the administrators mayn’t have sysdba password. The workaround is to do sudo as Oracle user and start the database. [root@ProdDB01 ~]# su – oracle -bash-3.1$ lsnrctl start LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 8.1.6.0.0 – Production on 20-MAR-2014 12:12:07 (c) Copyright 1998, 1999, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. TNS-01106: Listener […]
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