Re: Service startup on Windows 2000 fails

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:14:13AM -0800, Thomas Day wrote:
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> 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.
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> "Koivu, Lisa"
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> 02/19/2003 09:08
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> Good morning everyone,
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> Windows 2000 sp3, ver 8.1.7.2
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> All logons are part of the administrator and the ORA_DBA group.
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> 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.
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> Local system account also fails with same error.
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> Here's the error I receive when I try to manually start the listener
> service:
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> "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."
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> 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.
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> Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks
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> Lisa Koivu
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