I'm not sure about the upgrade from WinNT to Win2K, but the easiest remedy for the DB not auto-starting is to delete and re-create the service.
You can use ORADIM, and then while re-creating the service, you can use option of autostart. Regards Naveen -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L All I apologise I haven't had time to thank those who responded to my question about passing a list of variables to a stored procedure. There have been many fires burning here... so I haven't had time to respond. The problem I'm experiencing is this Management decided to upgrade the OS on our one of our development servers. No one asked for any input from me... but guess who they are asking to fix it?? I assure you all I had absolutely nothing to do with upgrading the OS without checking compatibility issues. <sigh...> We have 30 instances 5 - 7.34 5 - 8.05 20 - 8.1.6 Running on NT 4.0 sp6a 4G ram, twin 500 processors. All these databases are *not* production but rather development databases. The physical server's resources seemed to be more than adequate and never were an issue The problem began when the OS was upgraded to WIN2K server, now all the 8.16 dbs will not start automatically (upon boot) If I look at the service it says "starting" rather than started. Trying to connect with sql plus as internal I get "connected to an idle instance" So the only way to start the db is to pass sql plus the startup pfile=.... Then I'm good to go. I have a tar with Oracle and did the following recommendations 1. Applied the highest patch to 8.16 + a special 1 off patch, made no difference At that point Oracle suggested to upgrade to 8.17 as 8.16 is not supported on WIN2K server 2. Installed Oracle 8.17, set the home to 8.17 migrated 1 db as a test; all other dbs were started via batch script The new (migrated db still exhibits the original symptoms after the upgrade) which were If you try to connect via sql+ I get Oracle not available The db is listed as "starting" rather than started" I must physically start the db using SQL> startup pfile=... Or e.g. [startup.bat] svrmgrl.exe command='@C:\db_startup\initdb8i.sql' C:\sleep 3 svrmgrl.exe command='@C:\db_startup\initdbdev.sql' ... [initdb8i.sql] connect internal/password@db8i startup pfile=T:\Admin\db8i\PFILE\initdb8i.ora exit Oracle is saying this is bug 1266248 which precisely describes the problem Does anyone have any info or a solution for this?? As always many thanks.... Bob -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Bob Metelsky INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Naveen Nahata INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
