Unable To Create Listener Service on Windows with Personal Firewall (Doc ID 1435254.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 23, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Net Services - Version 11.1.0.7 to 11.2.0.4 [Release 11.1 to 11.2]
Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit) - Version: 2008 R2

When trying to create new listener in windows 2008 R2.

Getting error message:

Listener Control complete.
Listener start failed. Listener may already be running.

Attempting to use the command line utility yields the following errors:


      LSNRCTL> start 
Starting tnslsnr: please wait... 
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error 
TNS-00530: Protocol adapter error 
LSNRCTL>

No service gets created.

This is a new installation on Windows 2008 R2

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