Oracle 10g LISTENER not starting

[Stephen Badgett]

Need help in starting the Oracle Listener.

We have started the listener in the past with no problem. Then we upgradded the gcc to a gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)
and the listener wont start- ...
lsnrctl start

LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on 29-DEC-2005 12:32:46

Copyright (c) 1991, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Starting /orca/app/oracle/product/10.2/bin/tnslsnr: please wait...

TNS-12537: TNS:connection closed
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00507: Connection closed
Linux Error: 29: Illegal seek

We do have tracing set to support and attached

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Are you using RH Enterprise 4? Ensure that SELinux is disabled.

[Stephen Badgett]

We are using fedora core 4

SE linux is disabled
- we looked at that in the right away

Steve

[Eric Antunes]

Hi Steve,

Try to relink Oracle executables:

$cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin

$relink all

Best Regards,

Eric Antunes

[Stephen Badgett]

Hi

thanks for helping.

I have ran the relink and after trying to start the Listener

lsnrctl start

LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on 30-DEC-2005 09:27:21

Copyright (c) 1991, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Starting /orca/app/oracle/product/10.2/bin/tnslsnr: please wait...

TNS-12537: TNS:connection closed
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00507: Connection closed
Linux Error: 29: Illegal seek

this "Linux Error: 29" was me worried here. I wonder if there is a patch that would address this?

I have been told there is a there's a change to the posix definitions for read. The offset paramater was ignored for non-"standard file" operations. now it is defined to be checked to be the current file position or 0.
and so, if oracle were passing an un-initialized var to it because it was a required but ignored parm...
the new version of glibc now conforms to the spec

[Stephen Badgett]

Ok I fixed it --

[Stephen Badgett]

this was due to the host file

[Stephen Badgett]

This was becouse the /etc/host file was missing ...

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain

Thanks for all your help