connecting to sqlplus in 9i to create db problems

From: Glen A Stromquist <glen_stromquist_at_no.spam.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:01:35 GMT
Message-ID: <jJ5ab.34959$Cu3.7941@edtnps84>

I am trying to do a startup nomount in sqlplus so I can create a database sans dbca on 9.0.2.1.0 on SuSE 7.3, I think I've done all the neccesary steps with the /etc/oratab file, looking at the startup log it says that the <dbname> is warm started & the listener is running, but there is 2 lines above this that show the ORA-12545 error described below.

I created a tnsnames entry and can tnsping it ok.

I'm missing something simple here because I keep getting "ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist" when entering "startup nomount pfile=/path_to/initdbarch.ora" so I can carry on creating the database.

I've checked the env and ORACLE_SID is ok, what else am I missing?

TIA Received on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 18:01:35 CDT