Re: Oracle not starting (Windows)

I have exactly the same problem with Windows 2000 Pro SP2 (and SP1) and Personal edition 8.1.7.
Does anyone know what is the problem?

--
Ivica Dimjasevic


"Vladimir Hluchy Jr." <vladimir.hluchy_at_zg.tel.hr> wrote in message
news:9fkkq0$78jn$1_at_as201.hinet.hr...


>

> So...


>

> I have a box with a clean installation of Win 2000 Server + SP1. The

 system


> works fine (no alerts, warnings, etc., in the Event Viewer).


>

> I installed Oracle 8.1.7. Enterprise Edition (the installation process

 went


> without any problems), and created a database as a part of the


 installation


> process. I changed only the default location of the tablespaces (to put


> several hard disks to use), and the block size (from 4096 to 16384).

>

> However, after the system re-start, the Oracle does not start - I can't

> connect to the database from SQL*Plus or whatever.

> Funny thing is, the Services applet shows that all Oracle services are up

> and running. Also, Task Manager shows "Oracle" process (it occupies some

 8MB


> of RAM, and uses no CPU time).


>

> After I manually start the database (with svrmgrl), everything works.

>

> Now, the same thing happened to me several months ago, only the server was

> running NT 4.0 Server + SP6 . It wasn't the clean install of the system,

 so


> it didn't bother me much - I simply created a batch file and put it into


 the


> "Startup" folder. However, this time I would like to fix the problem


> properly!

>

> Any suggestions?

>

> Thanks!

>

> Vladimir Hluchy Jr.

> Gisdata d.o.o.

> Zagreb, Croatia

>

>

>

>