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ORA-27125: unable to create shared memory segment

edited Jun 18, 2013 2:10PM in Database Administration (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered
 Good day

We were trying to install an Oracle DB (11.2.0.3). The installation was successful but when we want to start the service throw an exception:

 "ORA-27125: unable to create shared memory segment"

and when we search through internet we found that we should make some modifications to the kernel parameters and recompile the kernel so how to solve this problem and what is compatibility with Oracle?

Note: This installation is over the cloud and this instance there is with Operative System Centos 6 and a kernel Linux 2.6.39-gcg-201210301000. Also with the installation don’t generate the file tnsname.ora and the file init<SID>.ora, because at the end of the installation the following message delivery:

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