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From: Brian Peasland <peasland@edcmail.cr.usgs.gov>
Subject: Re: ORA-12560 : protocol adaptater error
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When I received this error, I didn't have my ORACLE_SID set properly.
This happened to me in NT so I issued "set ORACLE_SID=ORCL" and
everything worked fine.

HTH,
Brian


"Nicolas L." wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> After rebooting the server we have this error : ORA-12560 : protocol
> adaptater error.
> The listener seems to run normaly but we can't connect as INTERNAL and
> restart DB instance.
> 
> Do anyone have another idea than a new installation of the server ???
> 
> Nicolas L.
> 
> BTW : after reading the news i've checked the permission of the temp file in
> /var/tmp it seems to be ok.