Glen A Stromquist wrote:
> 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
>
>
ORACLE_HOME?
ORACLE_BASE?
Invalid entries in SQLNET.ORA
testing the listener to see if it is up? lsnrctl status
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Received on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 18:23:58 CDT
