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?
Having SQL*Net functioning is NOT required to create or start a DB;
as long as you are logged onto the actual system hosting Oracle.
The only requirements are that ORACLE_SID & ORACLE_HOME be correct.
Received on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 19:36:53 CDT
