On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:48:24 GMT, AY_at_doofus.mn (Alan Yeary) wrote:
>In article <3757a984.12125638_at_news.xs4all.nl>, someone_at_somewhere.nl
>(Frank Heijmans) wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>Maybe crashing isn't the correct term to use. Since nothing is
>>actually starting. This is the third machine where this happens. As
>>usual nobody knows wat has been changed, but no oracle application
>>will start anymore. According to DrWatson it is an error in sqlnet.
>>(ntt80.dll invalid pointer)
>>
>>However, it seems to me that he doesn't now what he is talking about.
>>I have the feeling that somehow a win95 dll is corrupted or missing,
>>and ntt80.dll is trying to use this file.
>>
>>Because the strange thing is that the whole system appearantly is
>>f***edup, since even re-installing net8 or the whole Oracle
>>installation for that matter doesn't help.
>>
>>The only thing I could think of, the last two times, was re-installing
>>the whole system. But that's not a real option.
>>
>>Does anybody else have this problem and know how to deal with it. I
>>haven't got a clue what to look for.
>>
>>We are using oracle net8 client 8.0.4.0.0 on win95 boxes
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Frank Heijmans
>
>I don't know about Win95, but this is what happens on Win98 using
>8.0.4.0 : NTT80.DLL tries to get the address of some function that it
>thinks is exported by some winsock-related dll, gets an address of
>zero, (because the function is really in some other dll), attempts to
>call the function using the zero address and bombs.
>
Thanks, that seemes to work. SqlPlus starts again and I can connect to
the database
>
>There is a patch for Net8 version 804 that fixes this. It might be
>worth a try. Download files "readme.txt" and "80407.exe" from
>
>ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/server/patchsets/wgt_tech/server/windowsNT/network/net8/80407/
>
>
>Instructions are in the readme. Or else upgrade to 805.
Received on Sat Jun 05 1999 - 04:19:39 CDT
