Re: ora12541: tns no listener

thanks Ed!

I'm using 10g on windows xp pro. my listenerservice won't start and fails when I try to start it. what do you think? do I have to reinstall something?

"Ed Stevens" <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote in message news:56u9a0hbvhkl4ptpd9v0d7st018cu9kr18_at_4ax.com...
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 11:16:48 -0400, " - Dan -" <dan_at_domain.com> wrote:
>
> >I just installed oracle 10g db and client tools on my machine. I then
try
> >to connect to a database and I get the error ORA-12541: TNS: No listener.
> >
> >What does that mean and how do i fix it? I am new and inexperienced,
sorry.
> >
>
> When the client requests a connection to a database, sqlnet actually
> puts that request to a listener process. The listener then takes care
> of setting up a process to connect the client to the database. This
> error means the listener is not running.
>
> What OS is the db on? If Windows, go to the services panel and look
> for a service with a name something like OracleListener (or some
> variation on that). You can start the listener by either starting
> that service from the control panel, or from a dos prompt issuing the
> command 'lsnrctl start'. If on *nix, do a 'ps -ef | grep ora' and see
> if you have a listener process. Again, it can be started with
> 'lsnrctl start'
>
> And if you go to tahiti.oracle.com and sign up for a free OTN account,
> you'll have searchable, online access to the entire set of Oracle
> docs, including an error code lookup facility. At that point you
> could do a lookup of 'ORA-12541' . . .
Received on Fri May 14 2004 - 14:01:39 CDT