How to fix the Oracle error ORA-09924: Can’t spawn process – core dump directory not created properly?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-09924: Can’t spawn process – core dump directory not created properly with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-09924: Can’t spawn process – core dump directory not created properly

Reason for the Error ORA-09924: Can’t spawn process – core dump directory not created properly

ORACLE was unable to spawn a background process because the directory that holds the core dumps produced by ORACLE processes in the event of exceptions was not created properly.

How to fix the Error ORA-09924: Can’t spawn process – core dump directory not created properly ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Examine the directory pointed to by the initialization parameter “core_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.