Good luck
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/47692/en-us suggests that the
underlying OS error isn't valid on that OS!
I'd certainly be raising a tar if I can (though they might come back
with "out of support"), I'd also check for
large numbers of open files
hitting the 32bit process memory limit
permissions issues (is Oracle running as LocalSystem are the
%ORACLE_HOME% permissions right and so on.
cheers
On 6/27/06, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have a look at http://www.wlug.org.nz/ErrorMessages
>
> Then click on EMLINK.
>
> Yes, I know it is Linux, but read the description of possible causes.
>
> This is a POSIX error, which could very likely be your Error 31.
> FAT filesystems do not use hard links, but NTFS can, though I
> don't know if hard links are a special case on NTFS.
>
> Do these apps create a lot of sub-directories?
>
> Or perhaps NTFS Hard Links?
>
> Jared
>
>
>
> On 6/27/06, Sweetser, Joe <Joe.Sweetser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Oracle 8.1.7.4.1
> > Windows 2000 SP4
> >
> > Intermittent error that (so far) is only resolved with a server
reboot.
> > Error manifests itself many ways but the most obvious are inability to
> > connect to the database and/or inability to log into the server
itself.
> > If you do get logged in to the server...inability to start an
> > application; be it cmd or sqlplus. The error at that point is "Failed
> > to initialize application". No errors in alert.log and database comes
> > up fine after reboot.
> >
> > The only error I've found is in the listener.log and I can't figure
what
> > the underlying Windows error truly means. I have googled and
metalink'd
> > to no avail.
> >
> > 26-JUN-2006 10:23:18 * <snip> * establish * limsprod * 12500
> > TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process
> > TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
> > TNS-00530: Protocol adapter error
> > 32-bit Windows Error: 31: Too many links
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light on what "Too many links" means? Open
files?
> > Network connections? Sockets?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > -joe
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> >
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>
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