Re: sqldba can't go screen mode

Tan Chin Thong (cttan_at_ntu.ac.sg) wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Oracle database adminstration.
> When I fire up sqldba (hoping that it will go to to screen mode), it
> return the following error:
 

> DBA-00388: cannot start SQL*DBA in screen mode; check if values are legal:
> DBA-00389: toolkit resource file name is defined to tk2
 

> As I do not have the error/message manual, could any kind soul
> please explain the problem and provide an solution?
 

> BTW, I am running Oracle V7.0.15 on DEC OSF/1 v1.3.

Hi,

you have to set your environment-variables correct. Check the values of the variables ORACLE_HOME and especially the variable TERM or ORACLE_TERM. The TERM variable have to point to a terminal-description, which are located in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/terminal. Try it!!!

By the way, you can check the error-messages using command "oerr". It has the syntax oerr topic errno. Topic is in your case dba, errno is 388 or 389.

Bye, Timo.

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