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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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