If you actually see a pmon process with D0EUNAME in its name, it is starting to look like a bug. Does srvctl give you any errors when starting the instance? Regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Stefano Cislaghi [mailto:s.cislaghi@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: maandag 8 november 2010 18:34 To: D'Hooge Freek Cc: Martin Berger; Oracle L Subject: Re: Instance name different from database name On 8 November 2010 17:21, D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stefano, > > What do you see if you execute: > > srvctl config database -d DNAME Database Instances: DNAME Stefano -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l