Re: Instance won't start automatically

Thanks for the suggestions. After posting this message, I found a listing on technet.oracle.com indicating that there was a problem with this release of Oracle for NT that prevented the instance administrator from parsing an initSID.ora file if it had too many comments. While removing comments and blank lines did not solve the problem in my case, removing hard tab characters *did* solve the problem.

Thanks again.

Bob

Dana Stockler wrote in message <01be92de$b126fd30$b185a488_at_ws10>...
>Are you sure the ORADIM73 arguments in the command file are correct?
>Password, parameter file path, etc.? Mine looks like this:
>
> e:\orant\bin\oradim73.exe -startup -sid ORCL -usrpwd xxxxx -starttype
>srvc,inst -pfile e:\orant\database\initorcl.ora
>
>Permissions? The command file must be executed by the using running
>the OracleStartORCL service. Maybe that user (usually SYSTEM) doesn't
>have correct permission on the file?
>
>Just a couple of thoughts...
>
>Dana
>
>| I'm running Oracle 7.3.4 on an NT 4.0 server. I've installed a new SID
>and
>| everything is fine except that the instance administrator (oradim73.exe)
>| won't start the instance. Server manager (svrmgr23.exe), however, will
>| start the instance just fine. I left the default ORCL SID on the server
>for
>| now and oradim73 seems to start that instance fine. I've checked the
>format
>| and password of strtSID.cmd and this also seems fine. If I try using
>| oradim73 manually (i.e., command line mode), I don't get an error
>message,
>| but the instance does not start.
>
Received on Sun May 02 1999 - 08:54:45 CDT