Re: ORA-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process

Brijesh wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I am running Oracle 9i Release 9.0.1 on Windows 2000 Server. Last
> night, I started getting the error ORA-12500: TNS:listener failed to
> start a dedicated server process. I have gone through the postings in
> the groups for this error, however I could not find a solution to fix
> my problem. My database was working fine till the time it started
> giving this error (just making sure that its not a tnsnames.ora
> problem). I have less than 10 applications connected most of the day,
> and there may be few more connections coming in, not more than 30 at
> any instance to my knowledge.
> I am not sure where to start with, and what to look for. I have set
> trc_level on my listener to admin.
> Can someone help me with this. ?
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Brijesh Mathew

It is Windows. Reboot. Then if it happens again give us the full and complete text of the entire error stack.

And get a real operating system so this doesn't happen in the future. ;-)

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