Failed to start windows service for OracleDBConsole
For testing purpose, I recently installed an Oracle Enterprise Database on my workstation, which is Windows XP professional with service pack 3. At the time I just finished the installation, the windows service for OracleDbConsole had no problem to start. Unfortunately, I failed to start that today. I was kept to be given message “Agent process exited abnormally during initialization”
After investigation, I came across couple of possible solutions for that. The most hitting solution is that windows server timezone setting is incorrect (see posting here). My case is not fell into this one.
And then, I was starting thinking about what change about network configuration was changed recently. I recalled that we added DNS suffix for TCP/IP setting and I doubted that which made the executable EMCTL pointing to invalid URL for this database server. The next step I made is to check the configuration file emd.properties and found all URL access related setting are using my PC name within our organization domain. Therefore, I added one line at file hosts, which resides at /windows/system32/drivers/etc, and forced any access to my PC name to the real IP address my PC holds.
The problem is then solved.
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November 25th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Oracle Standard Edition 10.2.0.3
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Had a look in the hosts - the computer name was listed. Also listed in DNS.
I checked the Reverse DNS and had an extra entry in there (something old?), but that didn’t help.
Put the FQDN in the hosts file before the “normal” (short) name. Seems to work fine too.
Bizarre.
At least the users are off my back!
Must get around to looking at why it’s failing though… one day!
April 15th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Excelent post.
July 29th, 2009 at 5:17 am
Oracle 11g, Win XP Sp3, MSLoopback Adapater, WLAN
During install got “error starting Database Control.”
After the install the service OracleDBConsole would not start.
After viewing above posts (thank you) I edited host file. There was only an entry for 127.0.0.1.
I added a line:
192.168.1.2 mylaptop
saved file.
Now the service starts fine.
All the Best
Kyran
September 12th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Hey u did a good job,
i was searching this for a while and found here….
thank u