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Two listeners up [message #246431]

Wed, 20 June 2007 22:27

akshatmadan_101
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Registered: June 2007

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Hi,

I have Oracle 10g installed with one instance and one database. Two days back I had problems connecting to the database through PL-Sql developer (though I was able to connect to it before easily )but I could easily connect to it logging into the server through putty. So I checked out the status of the listener and found error :Address already in use . I found out two listeners were up at the same time one on Feb 06 and another on 18 June . Though I didn't started a new listener on 18 June . What can be the problem ? How did the second listener started automatically?

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Re: Two listeners up [message #246461 is a reply to message #246431]

Thu, 21 June 2007 01:07

Michel Cadot
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Server OS?

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Michel

[Updated on: Thu, 21 June 2007 01:07]

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Re: Two listeners up [message #246706 is a reply to message #246461]

Thu, 21 June 2007 11:49

DreamzZ
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whats the listening ports for both listener??

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Re: Two listeners up [message #246733 is a reply to message #246431]

Thu, 21 June 2007 13:11

akshatmadan_101
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Hi
The OS is Linux x86 and both port numbers were 1521

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Re: Two listeners up [message #246735 is a reply to message #246431]

Thu, 21 June 2007 13:15

akshatmadan_101
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Hi the OS is Linux x86 (10.2.0.1.0 )and the port numbers were 1521 .

I tried to check the status of listener and i got the error :

TNS-12547: TNS:lost contact
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00517: Lost contact
Linux Error: 104: Connection reset by peer

Then I tried to stop the listener I got same error :

TNS-12547: TNS:lost contact
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00517: Lost contact
Linux Error: 104: Connection reset by peer

I found listener.log file was more than 2 GB . So I deleted the file .

Then i got following error using cat
# cat listener.log
Error listening on: (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521))
TNS-12542: TNS:address already in use
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00512: Address already in use
Linux Error: 98: Address already in use

See the below :
$ ps aux | grep oracle
oracle 17287 0.0 0.0 42116 6036 ? Ssl Feb06 9:01 /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inherit
oracle 17751 0.0 0.0 42116 6040 ? S Jun18 0:00 /opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inherit

The above shows that two listenes were up . So we killed both the listeners and resolved the issue .

Can anyone please tell how did the second listener started by itself ?

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Re: Two listeners up [message #246736 is a reply to message #246431]

Thu, 21 June 2007 13:17

BlackSwan
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AFAIK, you can NOT have two listeners listening on the same port.
If you try to start the 2nd listener on the same port, you'll get the following error.
TNS-01106: Listener using listener name LISTENER has already been started

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