Hi All, Everything worked fine. I did drop the old db and trying to recreate new DB. Now it is not connecting to idle instance. What could be wrong? Sunday evening, I couldn't think anything. Any help would be highly appreciated. [oracle@linux1 10g]$ export ORACLE_SID=testdb [oracle@linux1 10g]$ sqlplus /nolog SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Sun Aug 8 19:22:00 2004 Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved. SQL> connect / as sysdba ERROR: ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------