Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Jeff C" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: 10g server won't start on XP Date: 14 Sep 2005 13:24:26 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 37 Message-ID: <1126729466.668638.109870@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1126718989.016961.131890@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.68.168.144 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1126729472 19953 127.0.0.1 (14 Sep 2005 20:24:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:24:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.68.168.144; posting-account=X77gYA0AAADAVq3_gkLcsbyYXidiyv6r Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:251528 Sybrand Bakker wrote: > On 14 Sep 2005 11:01:48 -0700, "Jeff C" > wrote: > > >In XP's Administrative Tools --> Services I want > >to start: > > > >OracleServicesJeffDB1 (this starts ok) > > The above line demonstrates the database DID start. > Fire up a dos box, type > set oracle_sid=JeffDB1 > and verify you can connect to the database. Oddly, ORACLE_SID does not seem to be an enviroment variable that has ever been set, even when Oracle was running fine. Anyway, I can connect to the database via a command line sqlplus session, but I can't access iSQL*Plus with my web browser, even though it seems to be running. > Both the listener and the intelligent agent don't function. > As you didn't post the relevant listener.ora, services.ora, > snmp_rw.ora and snmp_ro.ora no help here. The files services.ora, snmp_rw.ora and snmp_ro.ora do not exist. --Jeff > I truly hope this wasn't an Oracle class. > -- > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA