Re: 8i Win 2000 Service not starting problem

I had the same problem on my laptop...
It seems that the ORADIM hangs when trying to startup the instance. I just 'deleted' and recreated the service... and now everything works fine...

Giorgio

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message news:3aac8551_at_news.iprimus.com.au...
> This is a known bug, which I thought got sorted in 8.1.6.3, so I'm
 slightly
> surprised to see it happening on 8.1.7.
>
> Oddly, I'm running 8.1.6.0, and I don't have that problem (though I did
> *once*!!).
>
> You're quite right though: whatever the service says its status is, I've
> never had a problem just firing up server manager or SQL Plus and
> connecting. When I was getting the problem, I didn't let it bother me
> (though it *was* annoying), because full functionality never seemed
> affected.
>
> You might want to check Metalink to see if there's a patch for it, though.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
> "Bert" <sp_at_computron.de> wrote in message
> news:98h22j$h24$06$1_at_news.t-online.com...
> > Hi everybody,
> > after installing Oracle 8i (release 3 8.1.7) on a Windows 2000 Server
> > everything worked just perfect. After a few reboots the instance seemed
 not
> > to start anymore. I looked at the Win services and saw that it says:
> > 'starting' for the 'OracleServiceORCL' .... OK ... after waiting 10
 minutes
> > and still seeing the 'starting message I tried to start the instance by
> > using svrmgr .. worked, the DB is running and the 'OracleServiceORCL'
 still
> > shows 'starting'.
> > Since that it is the same every time I reboot the server... Whats
 wrong??
> > the instance startup with svrmgr seems to be clean, no problems there...
> >
> > Did I mess up something? Any enlightenment will be highly appreciated
> >
> > thanks,
> > Bert
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 12 2001 - 07:55:25 CST