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Fresh install of 18c Windows not working

4326818Sep 15 2020 — edited Sep 16 2020

Background:

  • Windows 10 2004
  • vsphere 6.7
  • Oracle XE 18c

Procedure:

  • I do a fresh install of XE with no visible errors.
  • I open a cmd window and do: sqlplus / as sysdba
  • I run: select * from v$version;

select * from v$version

*

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-01034: ORACLE not available

Process ID: 0

Session ID: 0 Serial number: 0

  • I run: startup

ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters

LRM-00109: could not open parameter file 'C:\APP\MyUser\PRODUCT\18.0.0\DBHOMEXE\DATABASE\INITXE.ORA'

  • I run: lsnrctl status

LSNRCTL for 64-bit Windows: Version 18.0.0.0.0 - Production on 15-SEP-2020 09:28:54

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Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=172.16.3.244)(PORT=1521)))

STATUS of the LISTENER

------------------------

Alias                     LISTENER

Version                   TNSLSNR for 64-bit Windows: Version 18.0.0.0.0 - Production

Start Date                14-SEP-2020 17:21:38

Uptime                    0 days 16 hr. 7 min. 20 sec

Trace Level               off

Security                  ON: Local OS Authentication

SNMP                      OFF

Default Service           XE

Listener Parameter File   C:\app\MyUser\product\18.0.0\dbhomeXE\network\admin\listener.ora

Listener Log File         C:\app\MyUser\product\18.0.0\diag\tnslsnr\DESKTOP-T7RFK8C\listener\alert\log.xml

Listening Endpoints Summary...

  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=172.16.3.244)(PORT=1521)))

  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC1521ipc)))

Services Summary...

Service "CLRExtProc" has 1 instance(s).

  Instance "CLRExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...

The command completed successfully

Can anyone assist? Note I can easily rollback to an eariler VM snapshot and start from scratch if necessary.

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