Re: Oracle NT services stop responding - more info

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"Chuck" <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9u847s$6ql3t$1_at_ID-85580.news.dfncis.de...
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> We started having a strange problem where the oracle services won't
> respond to anything. All remote connections fail at the client side
> but the failed connections are not recorded in the listener.log.
> Neither is any error recorded in the database alert log (though log
> switches are, so the service appears to be running). Connect
> internal via sqlplus and svrmgrl on the server fail too. Attempts
> to stop the Oracle database service also fail. It's like the
> service is still
> running but refusing to respond to any requests. The only way to
> get things working normally is to use task manager to kill the
> oracle.exe executable and then restart the service. This database
> has been
> running for a year but this problem started happening about 3 weeks
> ago. Any ideas?

I wanted to add that the error the clients get is ORA-12560 "TNS:protocol adapter error".

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