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Re: Listener issue

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_bestweb.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:24:13 -0400
Message-ID: <urjv6lrar56l21@corp.supernews.com>


I've experienced exactly the same problem as Karsten on older 7.3.4 versions running against Novell. Waits had to be added to the start up scripts. Try what Karsten suggests.

"Karsten Farrell" <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com> wrote in message news:oaVt9.323$jg.28783971_at_newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
> Faisal Qasim wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Listener on Oracle 7.3 on AIX 4.3.3 sometimes doesn't work at boot up.
> > Though listener process is started but listener refuses connection.
> > Manual start of listener resolves the issues. As you can see in log
> > below listener doesn't return any error.
> >
> > What is going wrong, what should I check? I will be grateful for any
> > hints.
> >
>
> It's hard to tickle those brain cells in my long-term memory where I
> stored all that 7.3 stuff ... and I was on Solaris, not AIX. If I
> remember correctly, we had to put "waits" in some of our boot scripts.
> Sometimes databases and listeners start up more or less rapidly for any
> given boot. Sometimes the database didn't shut down nicely and had to do
> some automatic recovery when it came up, so the listener got started
> before the database. If you manually start your listener, chances are
> pretty good that you're a bit slower than your AIX box, so the database
> is already started.
>
> You might compare the timestamps in your listener log against your alert
> log to see if this might be happening.
>
> Like I said, it's been a very long time and my memory ain't what it used
> to be (sung to the tune of 'Old Gray Mare').
>
Received on Fri Oct 25 2002 - 21:24:13 CDT

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