DBCA and can't init database SQL&gt; startup;
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/dbs/initAWSDB.ora'


I created a new Oracle 12c database using dbca

the only files in the dbs directory

$ ls -ltrh
total 24K
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall 3.1K May 15  2015 init.ora
-rw-r-----. 1 oracle oinstall   24 Mar 22 23:10 lkCFRDB
-rw-r-----. 1 oracle oinstall 3.5K Mar 22 23:13 orapwCFRDB
-rw-rw----. 1 oracle oinstall 1.6K Mar 22 23:27 hc_CFRDB.dat
-rw-r-----. 1 oracle oinstall 3.5K Mar 22 23:27 spfileCFRDB.ora
-rw-rw----. 1 oracle oinstall 1.6K Mar 22 23:42 hc_AWSDB.dat


When I tried to start up with init.ora

SQL&gt; startup pfile=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/dbs/init.ora
ORA-01261: Parameter db_recovery_file_dest destination string cannot be translated
ORA-01262: Stat failed on a file destination directory
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Your instance is called CFRDB, but you have set ORACLE_SID to AWSDB.

export ORACLE_SID=CFRDB, then try again.