Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: timbedford@hotmail.com (Tim Bedford) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: safe mode workaround Date: 4 Apr 2003 08:24:56 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.250.215.13 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1049473497 8097 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2003 16:24:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Apr 2003 16:24:57 GMT Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:182008 X-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 09:24:52 MST (news.easynews.com) Hi Norman, I just checked the Service properties and they're all set to use the local system account. have a nice weekend, Tim Norman Dunbar wrote in message news:... > Morning Tim, > > in which case I'd have a look in control panel | services and check that > there is a lisetener and the database service which are both configured > to automatic startup. > > Then, check that both of them run as the local system user (the default) > or if another username has been supplied. If a new username is supplied > has that user recently changed his/her password ? If so, you'll need to > have the services changed to reflect the user's new password. > > I'm on Win2K here but : > > listener service for ORCL92 running from OracleHome named 'OraHome92' is > called 'OracleOraHome92TNSListener' and the database service is > 'OracleServiceORCL92' - your's may differ. Go to properties for both of > these, then click the logon tab. If logon is set to 'local system > account' then there is a problem somewhere else. If it is set to 'this > account' then I suspect the password has been changed :o) > > HTH > > Cheers, > Norman. > > ------------------------------------- > Norman Dunbar > Database/Unix administrator > Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. > mailto:Norman.Dunbar@LFS.co.uk > Tel: 0113 289 6265 > Fax: 0113 289 3146 > URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com > ------------------------------------- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: timbedford@hotmail.com (Tim Bedford) > [mailto:timbedford@hotmail.com] > Posted At: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:29 AM > Posted To: server > Conversation: safe mode workaround > Subject: Re: safe mode workaround > > > Hi Norman, > > I have received this information about it: > > "There is no Oracle error on startup, and no alert that something is > wrong. From the command line the database starts fine. It's when the > computer reboots and the service starts that the database fails to > start." > > By the way its running on NT 4.0. > thanks, > > Tim