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ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact while login as sysdba [message #582500]

Thu, 18 April 2013 21:00

vishwas_samant
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Registered: April 2013

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ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact

Identify the issue
truss -aefo sqlplus.trc sqlplus /nolog
connect / as sysdba

Cause I
shared memory or semaphores leftover from previous instances (abnormal termination)
ipcs -a
remove problematic shared memory segments & semaphores
ipcrm -m & ipcrm -s
delete $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/lk<SID> file

Cause II
The /proc file system is not mounted.

Cause III
ulimit settings for 'open files' and 'pipe size' is very low.

$ulimit -n 4096
$ulimit -p 30

Cause IV
The stack limit is set too low.

ulimit -s 32768

Cause V
Invalid LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Set proper LD_LIBRARY_PATH path

Cause VI
dbs folder missing from oracle home
mkdir dbs and then create password & init files

Cause VII
Invalid env variables

echo $ORACLE_HOME
echo $ORACLE_SID
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
echo $PATH

Cause VIII
Wrong file permissions

cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
ls -l oracle

chmod 6751 oracle

or relink all

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Re: ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact while login as sysdba [message #582503 is a reply to message #582500]

Thu, 18 April 2013 21:53

BlackSwan
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Registered: January 2009
Location: SoCal

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Please read and follow the forum guidelines, to enable us to help you:

http://www.orafaq.com/forum/t/88153/0/

And your question is what exactly?

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Re: ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact while login as sysdba [message #582510 is a reply to message #582500]

Fri, 19 April 2013 00:26

Michel Cadot
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Saint-Maur, France, https...

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ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact
 *Cause: Partner has unexpectedly gone away, usually during process
 startup.
 *Action: Investigate partner application for abnormal termination. On an
 Interchange, this can happen if the machine is overloaded.

Regards
Michel

[Updated on: Fri, 19 April 2013 00:26]

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