Hi, I have installed oracle 9i Enterprise edition well on Solaris 9. Listener is started successfully and then dbstart script also starts well. But when i connect as sysdba and start database, it gives error. I go like: $ sqlplus SQL> connect / as sysdba Connected to an idle instance. SQL> startup ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 135352820 bytes Fixed Size 455156 bytes Variable Size 109051904 bytes Database Buffers 25165824 bytes Redo Buffers 679936 bytes ORA-12709: error while loading create database character set I don't know, why this error is coming. All kernal parameters and oracle profile parameters are also set. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Use the correct setting for the environment variable ORA_NLS33. Per your platform specific Oracle Installation and Configuration Guide, the ORA_NLS33 parameter should be set to the following: ORA_NLS33 = $ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data To set the variable to the correct location, use the following syntax: C-shell: % setenv ORA_NLS33 $ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls /admin/data Bourne or Korn shell: $ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data $ export ORA_NLS33 Restart your Server Manager session and restart the database. Check the files under ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data directory. Verify the ownership/permissions on the files are correct.