SQL Plus access Errors

Hi All;
First off if this is a misplaced post, sorry about that and please let me know where it should be posted.
I have an Oracle 11.g server that WAS functioning fine up to as of late. For some reason users cannot use SQL Developer (on the server) anymore and are now getting the ever so common error when trying to connect:
ORA-12514 TNS:Listener does not current know of the service.
Nothing has changed with regards to the user ID and passwords, nor have the service names changed or any other config to the Listener.
ALSO:
If I try to come in via a CLI with sqlplus commands, no dice here either. I'll try this path:
@prompt: sqlplus /nolog
@prompt: SQL*PLUS: Release 11.1.0.6.0 Product...etc. etc.
@prompt: connect /as sysdba
@prompt: ERROR:
ORA-12560 TNS: protocol adapter error
Yes I have did some "google" searches, but they just seem to hint about new installs and configurations. Not said error issues with prior functioning systems.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Steve
Edited by: user10773923 on Apr 1, 2010 3:45 PM
Edited by: user10773923 on Apr 1, 2010 3:46 PM

Hi,
If on windows, did you change the name of you machine?
It will fail your DB from starting up.
Often
Nothing has changedis our perspective, but something has in fact changed, else there is no reason for it not to work.
Happy Trouble Shooting :)
Regards,
Bhushan

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Edited by: Aman.... on Oct 7, 2008 5:46 PM
Added error info

Within SQL*Plus, get error code of host command

Hello everyone,
I am currently writing an SQL*Plus (Oracle 10g) that has a big logic and somewhere in the middle, I have to call a host command, which is an C++ function.
I call it using
SQL> HOST cd
SQL> HOST cd bins
SQL> HOST ./my_procedureBut, I need to get the return code of my procedure to see if it finished correctly?
I checked [the manual|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14357/ch4.htm#sthref883] but they don't say anything about return codes.
When I try:
SQL> host echo $?
0It always returns 0, even if I SIGTERM or SIGKILL the child process. Anyone has an idea on how is it possible to retrieve the return code?
Thanks

user13117585 wrote:
Hello guys and thanks for your answers.
Let me tell you a little more about my problem... I have a 3 steps process. The first step is done in the database. It updates a few tables. Then, when that step successfully ends, I need to start a second step. That second step is done on the server where I have my SQL Plus session. Because I actually have 2 different machines. The first one is where the database is running and the second one where I have SQL Plus (Oracle client 10g) and the program that I have to start in this second step. Then, once this process is finished and his return code is 0, then I have to execute the third step in the database.
Basically, I wanted to have something like:
VARIABLE returnCode
BEGIN
:returnCode := some_package.do_step_1;
-- do whatever I want with returnCode.
EXCEPTION WHEN ...
END;
HOST execute_external_program
BEGIN
IF external_job_succeed THEN
some_package.do_step_3
END IF;
EXCEPTION...
END;
/I wanted to use the Oracle Scheduler to create an EXTERNAL JOB. The problem is that the external program is not deployed on the same machine as the database.I know that on 11g, we have external remote jobs. But I'm on 10g and I have no agent on the server where the external program is. So, what are my options? SQL*Plus and the host command... Or I can also write a bash script to do that... Or any hight level programming language...
Any other idea?
Thanks again guys,move functionality of second step into PL/SQL procedure resident inside DB.

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Open [Connect().] Specified SQL Server not Found(6). I can log on to server with no problem but when I try to set up program to access I cannot. Is there another process I missing. I tried different porting but nothing. I have run query and it states the Computer
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Hi,
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I hope it helps.
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Hi All,
When I try to execute a create view script, I encounter a "Error 45 initializing SQL*Plus Internal Error".
When googled for it. The BUG 3039738 is associated with this error message.
My question is, When the Metalink has explained the scenario in BUG description that. This error is encountered when a shell script is trying to invoke the sqlplus.
I donno why I am getting it when I try to run a SQL create view script.
Details:
OS:Red Hat Linux 5.2
DB:Oracle 10g (10.2.0.4)
SQL> @EXP_HR_UK_EMPLOYEE_DETAIL_V.txt
Error 45 initializing SQL*Plus
Internal errorRegards,
SAM

Hi Robert,
We use eChangeMan for scripts transfer.
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In one link I found this
Cause: The issue is identified as Bug:3039738. This typically reproduces when SQL script file is on a OCFS filesystem created on shared device (for example, SAN storage).
Fix: The only workaround, until bug is fixed, is to copy the SQL script file to a local disk (in case of Linux, a ext3 filesystem).
But this is the first time I have encountered this error. When i did a vi on script, It looks fine, without any spl characters.
Regards,
SAM

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I have some spatial tables in 10g. I can use 'select query' on non spatial attributes but if try
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Program Error - sqlplusw.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created.
<Cancel>
But I am able to use isqlplus without any errors.
Earlier SQL plus used to work fine. I don't understand what happened to it in between.
How can I bring my SQL plus working again.

I created a copy for a spatial table using.
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