Re: Insufficient Privileges / Oracle Not Available

Adley wrote:
> Peace all,
>
> I encountered something strange today.
>
> Yesterday, due to some maintenance work, everything in the office must
> be shutdown. Including the Oracle servers. Today, though, when I tried
> to restart the instances, not one of them would start.
>

All your scenario's describe how you try to *connect* to Oracle, not how you try to *start* it.
Your second step, after 'sqlplus /nolog', should be to startup the instance via a command that is - surprisingly - called 'startup'.

-- 
Jeroen