ORA-12542: TNS:address already in use.
676911Jun 10 2009 — edited Jun 10 2009Hi , I am going to start my Listener in my Oracle 10g on red Hat, at office I use the tnsname.ora in my local drive, but when i bring my laptop home and start my VM, then I can not start my listener with the following error, I dun know how to fix t, but i know the problem is about the my tnsname.ora ...
[oradb@ghavamin ~]$ lsnrctl start
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on 30-MAR-2009 14:36:31
Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Starting /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/bin/tnslsnr: please wait...
TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
Log messages written to /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/log/listener.log
Error listening on: (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521))
TNS-12542: TNS:address already in use
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00512: Address already in use
Linux Error: 98: Address already in use
Listener failed to start. See the error message(s) above...
please kindly help
Edited by: user1750191 on Jun 10, 2009 8:41 AM