On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:14:13AM -0800, Thomas Day wrote: > > Try looking in the Event Viewer. For Win 2K that's under START - SETTINGS
When you are forced into using a toy operating system (read: unix bigot) like this you need to have tools that show you what the toy is doing to you. Kind of like stdout on a unix box. One of the greatest little utils I have found to open the win pandora's box is regmon and filemon. These help you find out what the system is choking on sometimes: www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml Hope it helps, it has for me at times. > - CONTROL PANEL - ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS. Hopefully it will tell you > something. > > > > > > "Koivu, Lisa" > > <Lisa.Koivu To: Multiple recipients of list >ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > @efairfield.com> cc: > > Sent by: root Subject: Service startup on Windows >2000 fails > > > > > 02/19/2003 09:08 > > AM > > Please respond > > to ORACLE-L > > > > > > > > > > Good morning everyone, > > > Windows 2000 sp3, ver 8.1.7.2 > > > I have NO IDEA what is going on here. I can't start any of the services > associated with Oracle, not with my logon, not with local admin, not with a > local account with appropriate permissions, nothing. > > > Here's what I've tried: > Followed note on metalink stating to add local security policies: > Act as part of operating system, increase quotas, log on as batch > job, replace a process level token, and rebooted. > > All logons are part of the administrator and the ORA_DBA group. > > I am able to log in as each of these local accounts, the accounts are > not locked or messed up. I have double-checked the password in the > properties tab. > > Local system account also fails with same error. > > > > Here's the error I receive when I try to manually start the listener > service: > > > "Could not start the OracleOraHome81TNSListener service on Local Computer. > The service did not return an error This could be an internal Windows > error or an internal service error. If the problem persists, contact your > system administrator." > > > I am clueless and so is the sysadmin. I am just thankful this is a test > system instead of production... I know next to nothing about windows. > > > Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks > > > Lisa Koivu > Oracle Database Administrator > Fairfield Resorts, Inc. > 5259 Coconut Creek Parkway > Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 33063 > Office: 954-935-4117 > Fax: 954-935-3639 > Cell: 954-683-4459 > > > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: > Koivu, Lisa 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.net > -- > Author: Thomas Day > 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). -- =============================================================== Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC 28^D -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Ray Stell 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).