Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)

I am trying to install 11g Express Edition Release 2 on a Windows XP (sp3) system that meets the system requirements documented in Oracle® Database Express Edition

My installation was done as follows;

1. accepted default settings
2. setting the password for SYS and SYSTEM database accounts
3. no errors observed during install
4. reboot

After the install I verified oracleservicexe service running and had the following issues:

1. When I launch "Get Started with Oracle Database 11g Express Edition", Chrome browser opens "127.0.0.1:8080/apex/f?p=4950" and reports an error "Google Chrome could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8080"
2. When I try to connect using SQL Plus, "c:\>sqlplus system, enter password used during install, I get the ORA-01089: Immediate shutdown in progress..." error.

Any advice or help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Message was edited by: TDM-TEK Listed below are logs from the installation (C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\config\log), which do reveal some errors. cloneDBCreation.log ----------------------------- SQL> Create controlfile reuse set database "XE"   2  MAXINSTANCES 8   3  MAXLOGHISTORY 1   4  MAXLOGFILES 16   5  MAXLOGMEMBERS 3   6  MAXDATAFILES 100   7  Datafile   8  'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\oradata\XE\system.dbf',   9  'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\oradata\XE\undotbs1.dbf', 10  'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\oradata\XE\sysaux.dbf', 11  'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\oradata\XE\users.dbf' 12  LOGFILE 13  GROUP 1 SIZE 51200K, 14  GROUP 2 SIZE 51200K, 15  RESETLOGS; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> exec dbms_backup_restore.zerodbid(0); SP2-0640: Not connected SP2-0641: "EXECUTE" requires connection to server SQL> shutdown immediate; SP2-0640: Not connected Database closed. SP2-0640: Not connected Database dismounted. ORA-28056: Writing audit records to Windows Event Log failed OSD-226848192: Message 226848192 not found;  product=RDBMS; facility=SOSD O/S-Error: (OS 1502) The event log file is full. SQL> startup nomount pfile="C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\config\scripts\initXETemp.ora"; ORA-01081: cannot start already-running ORACLE - shut it down first SQL> Create controlfile reuse set database "XE"   2  MAXINSTANCES 8   3  MAXLOGHISTORY 1   4  MAXLOGFILES 16   5  MAXLOGMEMBERS 3   6  MAXDATAFILES 100   7  Datafile   8  'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\oradata\XE\system.dbf',   9  'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\oradata\XE\undotbs1.dbf', 10  'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\oradata\XE\sysaux.dbf', 11  'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\oradata\XE\users.dbf' 12  LOGFILE 13  GROUP 1 SIZE 51200K, 14  GROUP 2 SIZE 51200K, 15  RESETLOGS; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> alter system enable restricted session; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> alter database "XE" open resetlogs; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> alter database rename global_name to "XE"; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> alter system switch logfile; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> alter system checkpoint; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> alter database drop logfile group 3; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> ALTER TABLESPACE TEMP ADD TEMPFILE 'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\oradata\XE\temp.dbf' SIZE 20480K REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 640K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> select tablespace_name from dba_tablespaces where tablespace_name='USERS'; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> select sid, program, serial#, username from v$session; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> alter user sys identified by "&&sysPassword"; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> alter user system identified by "&&systemPassword"; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> alter system disable restricted session; SP2-0640: Not connected SQL> @C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\config\scripts\postScripts.sql SQL> connect "SYS"/"&&sysPassword" as SYSDBA ERROR: ORA-28056: Writing audit records to Windows Event Log failed OSD-226806448: Message 226806448 not found;  product=RDBMS; facility=SOSD O/S-Error: (OS 1502) The event log file is full. ORA-28056: Writing audit records to Windows Event Log failed OSD-226806448: Message 226806448 not found;  product=RDBMS; facility=SOSD O/S-Error: (OS 1502) The event log file is full. SQL> set echo on SQL> spool C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\config\log\postScripts.log