Hi, It seems you haven't configured tns listener properly. check your listener.ora file see whether same oracle SID or instance name is ued which u have created while installation.

Regards, Vaibhav ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashok" kumhar@bol.net.in To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:12 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM]Installing Oracle8i 2(8.1.6)

I had installed Oracle8i on redhat 8(kernel 2.4 ,Glibc 2.2). but it gives some problem while creating database When I make an attempt to create the database it gives an error "TNS listener not started" And when I start the "TNS Listener" it gives the message that it has been already started