Re: Help needed on ORA-12547 TNS: lost contact

Bill Wine <biwine_at_vassar.edu> seems to have written:
>I am upgrading to Oracle 7.3.2.3.2 on VMS Alpha 7.1 this weekend.
>
>When trying to start an instance, I get this error:

[snip - svrmgrl and local sqlplus connect give 12547: lost contact

        TNS sqlplus gives 01034: oracle not available]

It's been a few months, but I seem to remember getting this error when I tested moving one O73232 instance manually from one alpha VMS 7.1 box to another.

I believe that under VMS a bequeath connection is established using the the beq_*.com files in the ORA_ROOT:[network.admin] directories. They're written by oracleins when you create the instance and contain fully qualified file specs to the relevant instance admin directory (that contains the oracleins-created db start/stop scripts) - no logicals, the full disc path.

If the path has changed (is the software /admin directories now in something like dra0:[oracle7.v732blah...] rather than dra0:[oracle7.v723blah] ?) then the bequeath adapter startup might fall over and give you the "lost contact" error.

7.3.3.mumble is available under alpha vms - 7.3.2.3.2 has been out for a long while now.

Sorry I can't be more help.

-michael
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St michael (mainly) Erroneous http://goliath.mersinet.co.uk/~ishamael/  "This message was brought to you by the united might of three Linux boxen   with a total of 384Mb RAM and 33Gb disc space. Expecting the message to   make sense in these circumstances was probably a little optimistic." Received on Sat Jul 18 1998 - 16:15:51 CDT