Re: help needed on NT please.....

The LCC-61 error is usually caused by an invalid NLS environment, it sounds like you have not got a clean install. I would check the NLSRTL32 and NLS_LANG entries are in the regisrty / valid and the c:\orant\nlsrtl... directory exists.

Regards
David Russell

Tony Commander wrote in message <359DEDF4.97E0AFD3_at_enterprise.net>...
>I have recently visited a customer site, where thay had, for variuos
>reasons re-installed NT, into the bargain upgrading as well from 3.51 to
>4.0 service pack 3.
>They are running Oracle 7.3.4 and had two instances running fine ( Note
>I say HAD!!)
>anyway I went in, re-installed Oracle to repopultae the registries and
>all that good stuff, and that worked fine.
>Then ran \ORANT\BIN\ORADIM73 -NEW -SID TEST -INTPWD TONY -STARTMODE
>-PFILE D:\ORANT\DATABASE\INITTEST.ORA
>
>which gave no errors.
>
>Then ran ORADIM73 -STARTUP -SID TEST -STARTYPE SRVC,INST -USRPWD -TONY
>-PFILE D:\ORANT\DATABASE\INITTEST.ORA
>
>Which again gave no errors and in the control panel services I could see
>ORACLESERVICETEST as started - but no instance?
>
>anyway - into servermanager after setting the sid to test,
>connect internal gave 'connected to idle instance' so far so good.
>startup open pfile=D:\ORANT\DATABASE\INITTEST.ORA
>came back with 'oracle error lcc00161 oracle error ( possible syntax
>error ) parameter [null]
> 'oracle error ora1031 insufficent privs'
>
>connect internal now gives ' ora12705 - invalid or unknown nls parameter
>specified'
>and
>connect system/manager gives ' oracle 01033 oracle initialisation or
>shutdown in progress'
>
>So I appear to have three starnge, but unrelated errors - Any ideas as
>to what might the cause - I even set DBA_AUTHORIZATION to BYPASS and
>still got the same errors.
>
>One question though - The NT manual states that deleting a sid, also
>deletes the database - I might want to delete this sid, and try again -
>is there a way to remove a sid without deleting the database files -
>perhaps line mode cos that doesn't create a database - so it might not
>delete as well?
>
>Thank you very much for any help you might be able to offer here, and I
>promise I'm going to avaoid NT like the plauge after this and
>concentrate on good old VMS which I understand!!!!
>
>thanks again!
>
>
Received on Sun Jul 05 1998 - 13:24:05 CDT