Re: Listener won't start

In article <#f9ShWYf#GA.210_at_upnetnews05>,   "Russ and Mary" <galatians6_9_at_email.msn.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
> I have an NT 4.0 SP3 box with Oracle 7.3 running. We had an instance
> running ok, until we had a vendor came in and install some new software
> which required another instance for it. To make a long story short, the
> previous instance quit running....after some fooling around, after a partial
> restore, I got the previous instance running again, but now the listener
> won't start. Both files, tnsnames.ora and listener.ora seem to be correct,
> they are not the ones from the restore and have both instances listed.
> When I select the listener in the Services box, I get an error message that
> says something like...unable to start listener...Internal Windows NT error.
> Obviously I am missing something. What other files are critical in the
> running of the listener? Any other way to synchronize these two files so
> listener will work?
> I would appreciate any help, or direction.....I am really under the gun
> here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russ
> Learning Oracle the hard way
>
>

Check the ORACLE_SID environment variable. Likely the other software changed it. Sorry I cannot help you more. I haven't done as much ORACLE on NT as I have on UNIX.

Ed Prochak
Magic Interface, Ltd.
ORACLE services
440-498-3702

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