Hi All, The issue of Listener hang has been identified to :--- 1) The Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service was not responding during the startup. 2) We set that to manual mode 3) Reboot server. 4) The listener service started. But as to why this should happen is a mystery . Thanks to all who replied . Thanks and regards Shreepad ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------