steve.morrell_at_white-carbon.com wrote:
> I got into the office on Monday to find that our server had been
> rebooted over the weekend, and none of the OracleServiceSID's were
> starting. They were all freezing as "starting". I've tinkered with
> every combination of manual/automatic startup and nothing seems to make
> a difference. When I try to start any of them manually I get an error
> "1053: The service did not respond to the start request in a timely
> fashion"
>
> I've tried connecting through SQLplus and get "ORA-01034: Oracle not
> available" on all the <SID>s. I have full control over all the other
> services on the server and can start them and stop them quite happily.
>
> This is on a Windows 2000 v5 sp4 machine, with Oracle 8.1.6. I've tried
> looking at the <SID>ALRT.log, which seems to be the correct one for
> this problem (is it? Is there somewhere else I should be looking?), but
> there are no entries in any of them since the last successful startup.
>
> Any help appreciated.
check out oradim.log in the ORACLE_HOME\database directory. This is
written to by oradim when it starts the services. You could also try
running this manually from the command line.
Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 05:37:31 CDT
