Re: ORA-01034 Oracle not available

Accept my apologies if this answer seems trivial and this may not be your case. You'll get that message if you try to connect to the server too quickly after a restart. Wait ten or fifteen minutes and try again.

Van

"Darren Anderson" <darren.anderson_at_uk.bosch.com> wrote in message news:9ikagk$5es$1_at_proxy.fe.internet.bosch.com...
> Oracle 8.0.5 on NT on Intel;
>
> We've been running this server for over a year in which time we've
 restarted
> the server on many occassions without any problems. However, after
> restarting it today, I'm getting "ORA-01034 Oracle not available" when
> trying to connect to either of my DBs.
>
> The LISTENER.ORA has not bee changed and looks fine, the listener service
 is
> running as are the DB services.
>
> Does anyone know why I'm getting this problem, especially given the fact
> that nothing has changed on the server?
>
> Darren.
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 12 2001 - 11:07:20 CDT