Re: Why don't Oracle start on Win2K?

From: Daniel A. Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:21:20 -0700
Message-ID: <3AD913B0.208D827E@exesolutions.com>

What you are missing is that Windows Services are remarkably dumb. They really haven't a clue whether something is started or not. Just that they tried to start it. What you report is a very common occurrence. Look at the Event Viewer and it will likely tell you what the problem is.

Daniel A. Morgan

Acid wrote:

> The services start correctly.
>
> But, when trying to connect with sqlplus, it gives the Oracle not available.
>
> If I go to the server DOS prompt and do a svrmgrl and connect internal, then
> do a startup, the database mounts and all it good.
>
> What am I missing for this to occur automatically?
>
> I remember having to do with with Novell everytime we restarted the DB on
> that platform.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
Received on Sat Apr 14 2001 - 22:21:20 CDT