Re: ORA-12701 on Oracle 9i

I had this EXACT problem yesterday when I was trying to build a new 9i DB. My solution was to blow away all files associated with the new DB and to build it again. I got the build to succeed by changing a line in init.ora #remote_login_passwordfile=EXCLUSIVE
remote_login_passwordfile=NONE  

HTH & YMMV!
> Yuval Arnon wrote:
>
> Dear dba list,
> I have a test 9.0.1 database that was working fine. After being down for while (no
>time to play with it) I tried to start in and
> I am getting the following errors.
>
> Metalink does not help.
> Machine is Sun 420 OS 5.7,
>
> SQL> conn sys/manager as sysdba
> Connected to an idle instance.
> SQL> startup pfile=inittest9i.ora
> ORACLE instance started.
>
> Total System Global Area 235701300 bytes
> Fixed Size 279604 bytes
> Variable Size 167772160 bytes
> Database Buffers 67108864 bytes
> Redo Buffers 540672 bytes
> Database mounted.
> ORA-01092: ORACLE instance terminated. Disconnection forced
>
> and when lookinig in the Oracle alert file.
>
> ORA-12701: CREATE DATABASE character set is not known
> Error 12701 happened during db open, shutting down database
> USER: terminating instance due to error 12701
> Instance terminated by USER, pid = 4066
> ORA-1092 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE OPEN...
>
> Thanks
>
> Yuval.

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