Re: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name, why?

From: Aj <ajkumar_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:28:29 -0500
Message-ID: <78385n$fv2$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net>

I had the same problem. Try connect to a ISP and while u are online, try to start the listener.. I bet it will work... I have the same setup as you do... Don't know why this happens... It was a discovery on my part...

HTH Aj

Paal Berggreen wrote in message <782nvq$kq7$1_at_readme.online.no>...
>I have installed Oracle 8 on NT40 Wks (sp4). However, I get "ORA-12154:
>TNS:could not resolve service name" when I try to connect to the db using
>enterprise manager (or any other db tool). I assume this is because the
>service OracleTNSListener80 is not running. The service has startup mode
>Automatic, but does not run (after boot). When I start the service
manually,
>I get the error "Could not start the ... service on <hostname>, Error 1067:
>The process terminated unexpectedly".
>
>So, my question is: is this service required to run, and if so; what may be
>(typical?) possible causes for the startup failure of the service? Oracle
in
>installed on \ORANT
>
>-Paal
>
>
Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 18:28:29 CST