Re: Windows and Oracle v8.04

Brandy wrote in message <7km3m7$pbr$1_at_remarQ.com>...
>I am unable to load Oracle v8.04 for NT onto a Windows 2000 Beta 3 OS.
>
>I get an error
> rdbms80.vrf(664): OS_ERROR while getting service status portmap
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>Any ideas what might cause the problem?

Hey, I'm always prepared to thumb suck! :-) This seems to be a NT specific problem and not a problem/bug with Oracle.

The "service status" bit may refer to an error Oracle received trying to use the NT Service Manager API calls - these are used for registering, starting up, pausing and shutting down NT services.

The "portmap" bit may refer to Oracle not being able to bind a TCP port (but why would the Oracle db engine want to bind a port?). The two of them together.. got me confused...

Anything useful in the event log? A service is suppose to report errors in the event log. If a service is not properly registered, you will find "funny messages" in the event log (the message number is the only part that exist in the event log - the actual message is contained in the service EXE or associated DLL. If the registration process fail, the event viewer does not know where to look up the error message code which then result in a "funny message").

You can also try and disable all other non-essential services like FTP, IIS etc. and see if that makes any difference.

regards,
Billy Received on Tue Jun 22 1999 - 01:28:24 CDT