Can't start EM after creating DB via DBCA

Question

I have now installed, uninstalled and re-installed 10G about five times on my W2K laptop without being able to successfully start EM or log into a DB via SQLPlus, etc.
There are two issues I am experiencing:
1) If I am not connected to the web thru my laptop (online), I cannot even reference EM. I have set my internet connection to Never dial a connection so it will not keep prompting me to connect, but this has been to no avail. If I open my browser and work offline and try to use the link to EM, it will not let me--it will give me the standard web page not found, detect network settings, etc screen.
2) If I am online, the EM web page comes up and tells me that my DB is not started and that I have to login as SYSDBA to start it. Despite using the correct OS userid/pwd and oracle userid SYS/pwd for the database login, it continues to tell me that the userid is wrong!
I cannot log into the DB as sysdba or otherwise via SQLPLUS. I can do "sqlplus /nolog" to get into sqlplus but can't connect to anything--it gives me the TNS-adapter error: not found' error message.
Now, I just did a fresh install and used DBCA to create a starter DB called test. I do not see a listener but on my last install (same problems as now) when I created one thru Net Mgr or Net Config Asst, it didn't matter as it wouldn't allow it to start in my services. There was already a OracleOraDb10g_home1TNSListener service set to AUTOMATIC and my new one (which it called OracleOraDb10g_home1TNSListener1Test) was set to manual and could not be started. LSNRCTL said that the new listener was blocked, so I assumed that 10G was using the EZCONNECT naming method and did not need the new listener.
What gives? Any help would be very much appreciated as I am at a complete standstill.
Thanks!
Dave

Answer 1

Sorry about that. I could not ping my instance, I CAN ping my laptop. I attached the lsnrctl and emctl results as well. It looks like it is still pointing to a previous DB that has been uninstalled that I no longer have (called dv2)?
C:\>ping DROCK-2K
Pinging DROCK-2K.abc.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\>ping test
Unknown host test.
C:\>lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on
13-AUG-2004 11:26:46
Copyright (c) 1991, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=DROCK-2K)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version
10.1.0.2.0 - Production
Start Date 13-AUG-2004 11:17:23
Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 9 min. 24 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File
c:\Oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1\NETWORK\ADMIN\listener.ora
Listener Log File
C:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1\network\log\listener.log
Listening Endpoints Summary...
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=127.0.0.1)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary...
Service "test" has 2 instance(s).
Instance "TEST", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Instance "test", status BLOCKED, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully
C:\>emctl status
EM Configuration issue.
C:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1/DROCK-2K.abc.com_dv2 not found.