Re: Oracle database not starting

<kjellern99_at_yahoo.no> wrote in message
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>
> Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> > On 9 Dec 2004 00:49:50 -0800, kjellern99_at_yahoo.no wrote:
> >
> > >When i restart my windows 2000 server with oracle 9 the database do
> not
> > >get startede anymore. I must log in and run the startup command to
> get
> > >the database going. Why? Up til last week everything was ok. Det
> > >database service is set to autostart and every thing looks ok when i
> > >looks at the service.
> >
> >
> > check out the alert log and/or oradim.log
> >
> > Your service started, but the database didn't start due to problems.
>
> The oradim.log gives ORA-12640 error everytime i try to restart the
> server. Why?
>

12640, 00000, "Authentication adapter initialization failed"

// *Cause:  The function specified in the authentication table entry for the
//          service failed.
// *Action: Enable tracing to determine the exact error.