Oracle 817 crashes when i change sys password.

Hi,

can someone please explain to me why oracle crashes on my oracle817 cluster server (W2k) system when i change tehh sys password? The first time this happened was when i changed it using dba studio. I thought that this might be a problem with that software however I've just tried changing the password at the command line (sqlplus) after having recreated the password file and hey presto the entire system has crashed and won't come back up again.

Now I realise that the internal account is hard coded into the system and needs manually putting back in, in fail safe manager, but is there anywhere for the sys passwrod to go?

I'm now on the phone to oracle support to try to get the system back up and running but this is doing my head in. For god's sake why didn't we use sql7 or above????????? That works! Received on Thu Sep 11 2003 - 04:45:14 CDT