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ORA-09922: Can't spawn process - background log directory not createdproperly

ORA-09922: Can't spawn process - background log directory not created properly




Cause: ORACLE was unable to spawn a background process because the directory that will hold trace files of the background processes was not created properly.




Action: Examine the directory pointed to by the initialization parameter "background_dump_dest".

Make sure that all of the following is true:

  1. The directory exists.
  2. The name indeed points to a directory, and is not a file.
  3. The directory is accessible and writable to the ORACLE user.