Hi
It failed during the activate of the database step before creating the physical database files, review the following files to see if there are any permission errors or memory allocation errors. If there are memory errors check the 2 OSS Notes or reduce the cache/heap settings and try again.
knldiag.old
knldiag.err
Dbm.prt
OSS Notes
628131 - SAP DB/MaxDB operating system parameters on Unix
129352 - Homogeneous system copy with SAP MaxDB
Thanks
Paul