Oracle Error ORA-07265: sppst: semop error, unable to increment semaphore.

Oracle Error Message

ORA-07265: sppst: semop error, unable to increment semaphore.

Reason for the Error

Semop system call returned an error. Semaphore set may not exist.

Solution

Check errno. Semaphore ID is returned in sercose[0]. Check semaphore set existence. A possible cause for this error is that a “shutdown abort” was done while this process was running.