All OracleServiceSIDs not starting

From: <steve.morrell_at_white-carbon.com>
Date: 13 Oct 2005 03:17:40 -0700
Message-ID: <1129198660.761619.152440@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

I got into the office on Monday to find that our server had been rebooted over the weekend, and none of the OracleServiceSID's were starting. They were all freezing as "starting". I've tinkered with every combination of manual/automatic startup and nothing seems to make a difference. When I try to start any of them manually I get an error "1053: The service did not respond to the start request in a timely fashion"

I've tried connecting through SQLplus and get "ORA-01034: Oracle not available" on all the <SID>s. I have full control over all the other services on the server and can start them and stop them quite happily.

This is on a Windows 2000 v5 sp4 machine, with Oracle 8.1.6. I've tried looking at the <SID>ALRT.log, which seems to be the correct one for this problem (is it? Is there somewhere else I should be looking?), but there are no entries in any of them since the last successful startup.

Any help appreciated.

Ta,
Steve Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 05:17:40 CDT