Re: Oracle Issue Report

DA,
This is from an 8.17 script

oradim -new -sid MYDB -startmode manual -pfile D:\ORACLE\ora81\database\initMYDB.ora
...
oradim -edit -sid MYDB -startmode auto

The newbie
CS

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3E668F05.7C6CFF57_at_exesolutions.com...
> Just got done solving a very nasty little problem with 9.2.0.1.0 on
> Win2K and thought I'd let everyone know as apparently no similar problem
> has been previously reported.
>
> 9:00pm last night Oracle had a normal shutdown as evidenced on-screen
> and in alert, trace, and log files
>
> This morning about 12 hours later startup resulted in a core dump and an
> alert log none of which indicated a specific problem.
>
> Attempting to log in returned a message that startup/shutdown was in
> progress.
> Attempts to shutdown and restart all resulted in numerous non-specific
> error messages.
> One of which led me to the registry where the NLS_LANG parameter was
> converted to 'NA' in three entries.
> Fixed those rebooted no change.
> Sent Oracle support the alert log and core dump and they could identify
> nothing and found no similar reports
> Finally solved the problem by using oradim to drop and recreate the
> service.
>
> What is critical and has not apparently been previously documented is
> that when using oradim with 9i
> to recreate Windows services ... when it asks for pfile it means the
> initSID.ora ... not the spfile.ora.
>
> Thought some of you might want to know in case you ever need it.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Thu Mar 06 2003 - 08:57:53 CST