Why is my system crashing, or Oracle failing, with the message ORA-27300?
Issue
- Why is my system crashing, or Oracle failing, with the following message?
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:getpwuid_r failed with status: 2
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
- Oracle 11g
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