DANGEROUS BUG Win XP /Oracle 9i

[Nick]

RE: Installation of Oracle 9.2 database on a Win XP Pro
PC that has Visual Studio.Net 2003 already installed

I am looking for the solution to a problem that I have
been facing for the past 30 days, and have not been able
to find any solution on the internet so far. So, I don't
know, if I have 'DISCOVERED' a new bug or what.

Anyways, here it goes:

I have a Win XP Pro PC and have installed Visual Studio
Enterprise Architect.NET 2003 on that. After that, I
tried to install Oracle 9.2 (the latest release of
Oracle) database, but without success. The TNSLSNR.EXE
has been giving me a hell of a problems, and the error
that I get from Microsoft (during installation of Oracle
9.2 and thereafter forever) is: "TNSLSNR.EXE has
encountered an error and needs to close. Report this
problem to Microsoft ...". When I try to connect to the
Oracle 9.2 database through SQL/PLUS, the error that I
get is: "ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name".

Could someone please explain what is going on here?
Trusting my Win XP Pro installation to be impeccable
(because everything including .NET 2003 just works fine
even now, minus the Oracle part) I have installed-
uninstalled-reinstalled Oracle 9.2 probably 20 times in
the last 30 days, but continue to get these errors. Have
I 'DISCOVERED' that .NET and Oracle 9.2 database on Win
XP Pro are born incompatibles, or am I just one of the
suffering but not so vociferous many? Is there a cure?
What is it please ...

Please do oblige with your help if you could in any way.
I am already sick with this and am technically dying
because I can't cure this.

Thanks,
Nick.

BTW: I work with the Bay.NET forum in Silicon Valley CA
as a volunteer/marketing events producer, and no-one
there has been able to answer my request so far either.
That hurts.

 

[Guest]

If you click on technical details what is the appname and teh modname?
Thsi may shed some light as to what is crashing TNSLSNR.EXE.
Either that or check event viewer.

 

[David Robbins]

have you tried asking in the oracle discussion groups or opening a support
case with them??
this would seem to be a rather weak source for oracle specific bugs.

 

[David Robbins]

p.s. specifically check out:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jsp?forum=64&thread=224503&tstart=0&trange=15
and probably more under:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jsp?forum=64

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

The first thing to do is see whether this mileage is typical for all
users (unlikely, else there'd have been a storm over it by now), all
users sharing particular situational similarities with your setup, or
only on your system. I'd do that by using Google with strings unique
to the error messages you see, something like...

Oracle 9.2 TNSLSNR.EXE "TNS:could not resolve"

If that (and similar search retries) finds nothing at all, then
suggests it's unique to you. Then I'd think bad installation media,
active malware that is interfereing with the process, or bad hardware.
The last is unlikely if this is the only problem you ever see.

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