TNS listerner crashing on XP Pro

From: Adam Lipscombe <adam_at_cobar.fsbusiness.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:33:18 +0100
Message-ID: <b73dp0$ioi$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>

Folks,

I have serious problem with an XP Pro box: When I try to connect to the db via TNSPing, the enterprise manager, SQL-PLUS, or via JDBC from a Java App the listener crashes, either immediately or after a short time (< 1 minute). From researching usenet this seems to be a problem that several people are experiencing. I cant find a defintive answer though.

Installed Oracle 9.2 with default configuration - didnt change anything. The box is a 1ghz Athlon with 750mb RAM, so it should have plenty of grunt.

I have tried the following:

Booting with nothing else started via MSCONFIG. Behaviour is the same. 2, The following string value to "\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0": "USE_SHARED_SOCKET" set to "TRUE". Behaviour the same.

Any help would be much appreciated as this is a real show-stopper..

Someone suggested reintstalling Oracle using named pipes. What is the implication of this? Will it stop a Java app connecting via JDBC?

TIA - Adam Lipscombe

The tnsnames.ora and listener log contents are below. As you can see the listener crashes after the 4th tnsping.

Tnsnames.ora:

# TNSNAMES.ORA Network Configuration File: D:\oracle\ora92\network\admin\tnsnames.ora # Generated by Oracle configuration tools.

ORADB1 =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = cobar)(PORT = 1521))
    )
    (CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = oradb1.cobar)

    )
  )

INST1_HTTP =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = cobar)(PORT = 1521))
    )
    (CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = SHARED)
(SERVICE_NAME = MODOSE)
(PRESENTATION = http://HRService)

    )
  )

EXTPROC_CONNECTION_DATA =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC0))
    )
    (CONNECT_DATA =
(SID = PLSExtProc)
(PRESENTATION = RO)

    )
  )

listener.log:

TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on 10-APR-2003 10:10:21

System parameter file is D:\oracle\ora92\network\admin\listener.ora Log messages written to D:\oracle\ora92\network\log\listener.log Trace information written to D:\oracle\ora92\network\trace\listener.trc Trace level is currently 0

Started with pid=3356
Listening on:
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC0ipc))) Listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=cobar)(PORT=1521)))

TIMESTAMP * CONNECT DATA [* PROTOCOL INFO] * EVENT [* SID] * RETURN CODE

10-APR-2003 10:10:28 * ping * 0
10-APR-2003 10:10:28 * ping * 0
10-APR-2003 10:10:28 * ping * 0
10-APR-2003 10:10:28 * ping * 0

Received on Thu Apr 10 2003 - 04:33:18 CDT