Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!feedwest.aleron.net!aleron.net!sfo2-feed1.news.algx.net!allegiance!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: mgeiling@web.de (Michael Geiling) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: ORA-12709 when starting the database Date: 9 Oct 2002 22:55:11 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.80.34.62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1034229311 17860 127.0.0.1 (10 Oct 2002 05:55:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Oct 2002 05:55:11 GMT Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:163689 X-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 22:55:08 MST (news.easynews.com) Karsten Farell wrote in message news:... > Michael Geiling wrote: > > We generated a DB using DBCA->new database; this seemed to work ok. > > When we used sqlplus to start the db (startup pfile=...) we get the > > error 12709 which is an internal error related to the database > > character set. > > Are there any tips who to get around this error. > > I typed 'ora-12709' into Google and got 50 matches. You didn't supply > enough info for me to diagnose your exact problem (like db or os > version) ... maybe one of the hits on Google has your answer. It's worth > a look. I did the same (after reading the docu which says: 'This in an internal error. Contact Oracle Support Services') but didn't get nowhere. The OSs I'm using is SuSE 8.0 and debian/woody along with Oracle 9iR2. Thanks