Jeffrey, that fixes the problem, thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 From: Jeffrey Beckstrom [mailto:JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:57 AM To: gparc@xxxxxxx; William Wagman Cc: oracle-l Subject: RE: What am I missing? We had something similar a few years ago. Check out BUG 2546111. Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 >>> William Wagman <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2/23/09 1:39 PM >>> I have been investigating further. I found the bug report you mentioned but I have not applied the patch to either server. The error does not occur on the test/devel server but does on the production. Do you have any further suggestions? Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: gparc@xxxxxxx [mailto:gparc@xxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:46 AM To: William Wagman Subject: Re: What am I missing? Bill, maybe a difference in patches applied on these two platforms as you probably hit Bug #5495695 (See ML Note #5495695.8) HTH Regards Quoting William Wagman <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx>: Greetings, I'm running oracle 9.2.0.8.0EE on RHEL4, all 64-bit. I have a login.sql where a few usernames and passwords are defined and I am able to connect successfully... [oracle@critpinn ~]$ sqlplus / SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production on Thu Feb 19 12:58:33 2009 Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production SQL> CONNECT &&UCD_USER/&&UCD_PASSWORD; Connected. However if I initially issue a whenever oserror the connection fails with a no such file or directory message... [oracle@critpinn ~]$ sqlplus / . . SQL> WHENEVER OSERROR EXIT SQL.SQLCODE ROLLBACK SQL> CONNECT &&UCD_USER/&&UCD_PASSWORD O/S Message: No such file or directory Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production This behaves differently on the development box, ie, I don't get disconnected as a result of the whenever oserror clause. I am unable to find a difference between the two boxes which would cause the error and web searching has not revealed anything yet. Strace reveals that the files $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libngss9.so & $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libnnts9.so Don't exist but they do not exist on the devel box either. I see many seeks and immediately before it dumps there is a line with text... Lseek (7, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) But I have no idea what that means. I can't for the life of me determine what file is being sought in this case. Any suggestions would greatly appreciated. Even suggestions for how to trace the problem further. Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l --------------------------------------------------------------------- Scanning of this message and addition of this footer is performed by SurfControl E-mail Filter software in conjunction with virus detection software.