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ORA-12518:TNS:listener could not hand off client connection.

user8708553Sep 4 2019 — edited Sep 14 2019

Hello everyone,

A few days ago, I was getting this error message  (while I was trying to log on my pluggable database) :

  ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor

And I was able to get past this error message by adding the following entry to the listener.ora

file :

     (SID_DESC =

        (SID_NAME = ORCLPDB)

       (ORACLE_HOME = C:\Oracle19c)

    )

Now I don't get ORA-12514 anymore.  But I am getting a new error message :

    ORA-12518:TNS:listener could not hand off client connection.

This message was also written to the log file.  In the log file, I also saw :

  TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error

  TNS-00530: Protocol adapter error

  64-bit Windows Error: 203: Unknown error

I have done a lot of googling.  And I tried closing all user apps but one CMD terminal and

tried to log on again.  And I still got ORA-12518. I have also tried to increase the number

of processes from 320 to 800; and still got ORA-12518.

Have you encountered this problem before?  How did you fix it?  I appreciate any help

you might be able to provide.

Thank you,

cmh

This post has been answered by EdStevens on Sep 7 2019
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