Re: Oracle hangs on startup (9.2 on Win2000)

  • From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Paul Vincent <paul.vincent@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:50:37 +0000

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:10:17 -0000, Paul Vincent <paul.vincent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > "ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel"
> >  >
> >  > Does this shed any more light on the possible cause of the problem?
> >  >
> >  > Paul
> >
> >  Ok in that case I think I would do the manual startup thing.
> >
> >  at a command window on the server
> >  oradim -edit -sid <your sid> -startmode manual
> 
> OK
> 
> >  -- try to avoid the service trying to start the instance.
> >  then
> >  net start oracleservice<sid>
> >  set oracle_sid=<your sid>
> >  sqlplus /nolog
> >
> >  in sqlplus
> >  connect / as sysdba
> 
> Hit a problem here: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges.
> Instead, I tried CONNECT SYS/password AS SYSDBA, and this worked OK.

fair enough. 

> 
> >  startup
> >
> >  you should get the underlying error.
> >
> 
> This gave the "ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel" error.

and still no trace file? it might be in BDUMP rather than UDUMP of course. 

a tar would be an excellent idea. 



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