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Re: HELP - Why does my import fail?

From: David A. Titzer <DTitzer_at_UnitedIS.COM>
Date: 1997/07/17
Message-ID: <5qlc1v$a3v@clarknet.clark.net>#1/1

 Richard Hansen wrote in article <33c2dc6f.1336947_at_news.cadvision.com>...
>On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:37:14 -0400, "David A. Titzer"
><DTitzer_at_UnitedIS.COM> wrote:
>
>>The Oracle versions are identical, FYI. It was sold with
>>Interleaf's RDM product. Hence, I don't have loads of docs
>>to go with it. We do have in-house expertise, but they're
>>stumped.
>>
>>The export file comes from a Solaris 2.5 system, and is being
>>imported to another Solaris 2.5 system. Hardware is different,
>>but I don't know what bearing that has. I get the following
>>errors from imp:
>>
>>00038, 00000, "Could not find environment character set handle"
>>// *Cause: self-evident.
>>// *Action: internal error.
>>00021, 00000, "operating system error - error code (dec %lu, hex 0x%X)"
>>// *Cause; Operating system error.
>>// *Action: Check the OS manual for the error code and take appropriate
>>action.
>>00000, 00000, "Import terminated unsuccessfully\n"
>>// *Cause: Error encountered.
>>// *Action: Check the preceding error message and take appropriate
 actions.
>>
>>
>>
>>The first message is "self-evident?" HAH! I know people posting here are
>>routinely
>>exporting and importing across platforms and OSes, but I'm unable to
 find
>>out why
>>this won't work for me. TIA for all advice. --Dave
>
>A fellow DBA is also getting a similar problem on an AIX import (don't
>know the version of the OS).
>
>We checked the dump file and it was created under version 7.3.2 of
>Oracle. The destination DB is 7.2.2.
>
>I'd also appreciate any help on this.
>
>

I'm working with identical releases of Oracle. So much for using _that_ as a possible cause. I'm still working the problem.... Received on Thu Jul 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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