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Startup Of one of instances of a RAC database fail with ORA-00119: invalid specification for system parameter REMOTE_LISTENER (Doc ID 2278285.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 16, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.3 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Startup of one of cluster database instances fails with an error message that the setting for the remote_listener is not correct

 srvctl start instance -d <DB_UNIQUE_NAME> -i <HOSTNAME01>
PRCR-1013 : Failed to start resource ora.<DB_UNIQUE_NAME>.db
PRCR-1064 : Failed to start resource <DB_UNIQUE_NAME>.db on node <HOSTNAME01>
CRS-5017: The resource action "ora.<DB_UNIQUE_NAME>.db start" encountered the following error:
ORA-00119: invalid specification for system parameter REMOTE_LISTENER
ORA-00132: syntax error or unresolved network name '<cluster-scan>:<PORT>'

However, other instances that have the same setting for the remote_listener starts up fine.

Cause

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