On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:38:11 +0500, fahd mirza <fahd-m@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Listers, > Its an emergency please. I am experiencing a strange and baffling > situation.I am running Oracle 8.1.6 on WIN2K. When in shell, I write svrmgrl, > I get an error. > svrmgrl> ORA-12560-TNS PROTOCOL ADAPTER ERROR The most likely causes for this in my experience are 1. ORACLE_SID is not set correctly. (Carel said this) 2. The database isn't running! Check first that the db service is running and secondly the alert.log -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------