listener problems with 8.1.6

From: Terry Ball <terry_ball_at_csgsystems.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:44:10 -0500
Message-Id: <10606.116089@fatcity.com>

I am testing an upgrade of a 7.3.4 database to 8.1.6 on AIX and am having problem with the listener. I have made the listener.ora the same in both the 7.3.4 and 8.1.6 $ORACLE_HOME directories. They are pointing to the 8.1.6 $ORACLE_HOME. I did a diff of the files, and there are NO differences. Yet, if I use the listener.ora in the 8.1.6 $ORACLE_HOME, I can not connect to the database. I get

    ORA-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process While bringing the listener up using the 7.3.4 $ORACLE_HOME, I can connect to the 8.1.6 instance.

A tnsping with either listener.ora returns results. The listener.ora looks like:

LISTENER =
  (ADDRESS_LIST =

        (ADDRESS=


          (PROTOCOL=IPC)

          (KEY= FLA1)

        )
        (ADDRESS=


          (PROTOCOL=IPC)

          (KEY= FLA1.world)

        )
        (ADDRESS =


          (PROTOCOL = TCP)

          (Host = frs01)

          (Port = 1521)

        )

  )
STARTUP_WAIT_TIME_LISTENER = 0
CONNECT_TIMEOUT_LISTENER = 0
TRACE_LEVEL_LISTENER = 0
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
  (SID_LIST =
    (SID_DESC =

      (SID_NAME = FLA1)
      (ORACLE_HOME = /opt/app/oracle/product/8.1.6)
      (ENVS='EPC_DISABLED=TRUE')

    )
  )

Does anyone have any idea what is causing this behavior? Any suggestions as to what to look for and/or change would be much Received on Fri Sep 01 2000 - 13:44:10 CDT