Re: oradim73: won't create new services

Not many replies eh Tel !!!

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:42:27 +0100, Terry Freemantle <unknown_at_boat.bt.com> wrote:

>Any ideas appreciated, I'm going mad with this one !
>
>The scenario:
>
>Oracle 7.3.4 on NT 4.00.1381
>
>Stage 1 - move datafiles, redos and controls to new locations. With
>orant in original location, open up db. No problems.
>
>Stage 2 - move orant to new location (different from all above files)
>after removing all products via installer cd-rom, removing high level
>orant folder, removing oracle key from registry,removing any oracle*
>from system/currentcontrolset/services and deleting oracle srvc and sid
>services via oradim73. Reboot server.
>
>Problem:
>
>New install from cd-rom to new location(no db create option) works ok.
>Attempts at creating new sid and srvc names fail with 'failure to create
>new service name' in oradim73.log. No pwdsid.ora file is created in
>orant/database either. Tried approx.3 times, following above but no
>change to error condition.
>Re-ran installer and created default ORCL db which was fine, services
>created and started, db open.
>Tried creating 'test' service name with just mandatory -new and -sid
>parms but nothing doing, same error.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Terence Freemantle.
Received on Sat Oct 17 1998 - 18:26:04 CDT