• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Description:
Trying to do a vir00 clean up using the util x/8 menu and received oracle error:
Enter number of days back to retain:
Enter loop count:

no of back to retain - 10
loop count - 1000
to continue type yes yes
Start clear_vir01...

Oracle error: handle_connection
ORA-01034: Message 1034 not found; No message file for product=RDBMS,
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* No ORACLE connection - process is terminated... *
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Can't make pipe.

Enter to continue/dev/null: Too many open files in system.
/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/clear_screen: Too many open files in system.

Resolution:
See the information in KB 16384-28193. Although it is a different process, the underlying problem is at the Unix system level and that's where it needs to be corrected. See (for Linux):
http://pearlin.info/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files-or-file-descriptors/
how to change the file descriptors for all users (in step #3).

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013