Re: HELP - Why does my import fail?

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:37:14 -0400, "David A. Titzer" <DTitzer_at_UnitedIS.COM> wrote:

>The Oracle versions are identical, FYI. It was sold with
>Interleaf's RDM product. Hence, I don't have loads of docs
>to go with it. We do have in-house expertise, but they're
>stumped.
>
>The export file comes from a Solaris 2.5 system, and is being
>imported to another Solaris 2.5 system. Hardware is different,
>but I don't know what bearing that has. I get the following
>errors from imp:
>
>00038, 00000, "Could not find environment character set handle"
>// *Cause: self-evident.
>// *Action: internal error.
>00021, 00000, "operating system error - error code (dec %lu, hex 0x%X)"
>// *Cause; Operating system error.
>// *Action: Check the OS manual for the error code and take appropriate
>action.
>00000, 00000, "Import terminated unsuccessfully\n"
>// *Cause: Error encountered.
>// *Action: Check the preceding error message and take appropriate actions.
>
>
>
>The first message is "self-evident?" HAH! I know people posting here are
>routinely
>exporting and importing across platforms and OSes, but I'm unable to find
>out why
>this won't work for me. TIA for all advice. --Dave

A fellow DBA is also getting a similar problem on an AIX import (don't know the version of the OS).

We checked the dump file and it was created under version 7.3.2 of Oracle. The destination DB is 7.2.2.

I'd also appreciate any help on this. Received on Wed Jul 09 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT