I think your server has reached the maximum number of
processes allowed. I had seen this problem on AIX and
when I increased the processes from root, it resolved
this problem.

Tom


--- "Vasta, Tom" <tom.[Email Address Removed] wrote:
> No, but I would very,very much like to hear the
> answer - being it's going to
> be my set-up in a couple of days----
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trilling, Jeff [mailto:[Email Address Removed]
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:00 PM
> To: LazyDBA.com Discussion
> Subject: corrupted listener???
>
>
> Dear Gurus -
> All of a sudden my users can't connect and get:
> TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated
> server process
> I did a lsnrctl status and it says the service
> handlers are up. I
> did lsnrctl stop, lsnrctl start and lsnrctl reload.
> I shut down the listener
> service (NT) and restarted, Nothing seemed to help.
> I can connect to the
> database from the server but not from any of the
> clients. I turned on
> tracing but nothing seems abnormal. I shut down the
> database and restarted
> and this did not help. The only remedy was a reboot
> of the server which
> corrected the problem. Any body seen this ? Ora-817
> NT4 - Thanks in advance
> - Jeff
>
>
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