Oracle 8.1.6 service hangs on "Starting". Help!

[Lou]

hey all,
i have Oracle Enterprise 8.1.6 installed on a WinXP
machine and i created a local DB service with the
Database Configuration Assistant, but the service won't
start. when i go to Start>ControlPanel>.....>Services it
just says "Starting" and nothing happens. No error
message, no nothing, just says "Starting" and that's it.

one thing i tried was the following: in the file
sqlnet.ora, i changed the following line:
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NONE), it used to be NTS
in the parenthesis. when i first powered my machine this
morning and attempted to start the Oracle service
manually it worked, but then i was messing around with
the Oracle Net8 Assistant so i had to restart the service
and now it won't start. it gives me the following error
message:

"Could not start the OracleService[service name here]
on Local Computer

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start
or control request in a timely fashion."

and then the it just says "Starting" and it won't do
anything. it seems to be a WinXP/Oracle 8.1.6
incompitability issue, but it's got to be a way around it.

any ideas?

thanks much!

 

[Malke]

hey all,
i have Oracle Enterprise 8.1.6 installed on a WinXP
machine and i created a local DB service with the
Database Configuration Assistant, but the service won't
start. when i go to Start>ControlPanel>.....>Services it
just says "Starting" and nothing happens. No error
message, no nothing, just says "Starting" and that's it.

one thing i tried was the following: in the file
sqlnet.ora, i changed the following line:
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NONE), it used to be NTS
in the parenthesis. when i first powered my machine this
morning and attempted to start the Oracle service
manually it worked, but then i was messing around with
the Oracle Net8 Assistant so i had to restart the service
and now it won't start. it gives me the following error
message:

"Could not start the OracleService[service name here]
on Local Computer

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start
or control request in a timely fashion."

and then the it just says "Starting" and it won't do
anything. it seems to be a WinXP/Oracle 8.1.6
incompitability issue, but it's got to be a way around it.

This is definitely something you should be asking the Oracle tech
support people. Goodness knows Oracle costs enough.

Malke