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ORA-12547: TNS:Lost Contact Trying To Start The Database. (Doc ID 336285.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.5 [Release 9.2 to 10.2]
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
HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit)


Symptoms

After applying  OS patches customer was unable to connect as sysdba due to the next error:

Changes

The following patches were installed:
 
GOLDAPPS11i           B.11.11.0506.4 Applications Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, June 2005
GOLDBASE11i           B.11.11.0506.4 Base Patches for  HP-UX 11i v1, June 2005
HWEnable11i           B.11.11.0412.5 Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11 v1, December 2004
CPB_35167             2005.07.01     Custom Analysis June05

Cause

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