TNS:no listener

I am using Oracle 8.1.5i on Solaris. Was working fine from a remote connection before. Had a system crash and all of a sudden the listener is not working. I start tnslsnr and it sits in the task list for about 10 minutes and closes.

I get ORA-12541: TNS:no listener.

I then start it manually for the little bit it will run and get:

ORA-12514: TNS:listener could not reolve SERVICE_NAME given in connect descriptor.

I'm new to this and there isn't much help available at my company so if someone would be so kind as to provide a sample listener.ora and tnsnames.ora, assuming that's the problem, it would be much appreciated.

For the example, say the machine has a DNS of joe.man.com, port of 1521, and the SID is k5ent1. THanks for any help that can be provided resolving this.

By the way, here's something from my k5ent1.log in the network area:

• snip ---- TNSLSNR for Solaris: Version 8.1.5.0.0 - Production on 11-MAY-00 13:26:34

(c) Copyright 1998 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

System parameter file is
/home/oracle8i/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.5/network/adm
in/listener.ora
Log messages written to
/home/oracle8i/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.5/network/log/
k5ent1.log

TNS-01151: Missing listener name, k5ent1, in LISTENER.ORA

• snip ----

and from my start.log:

• snip ----

TNS-01151: Missing listener name, start, in LISTENER.ORA

TNSLSNR for Solaris: Version 8.1.5.0.0 - Production on 11-MAY-00 13:26:49

(c) Copyright 1998 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

System parameter file is
/home/oracle8i/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.5/network/adm
in/listener.ora
Log messages written to
/home/oracle8i/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.5/network/log/
start.log

TNS-01151: Missing listener name, start, in LISTENER.ORA ~ -- snip ----

Steve
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