Friday, June 22, 2012

TNS-01189: The listener could not authenticate the user

I was working on restoring database to a new VM lab environment. So the TNS, Listener , PFILe everything was copied over as usual as I'll be doing RMAN restore. So the restoration went fine, but interestingly listener didn't like my user to run it. Error was a bit confusing to me. Here is what I got.

[oracle@lab]$ lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on 22-JUN-2012 09:55:32
Copyright (c) 1991, 2010, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=production.com)(PORT=1521)))
TNS-01189: The listener could not authenticate the user

I was so stupid that I was only looking into the error. Then I suddenly looked into the HOST name. It was picking up my source database as hostname; as I just copied the listener.ora file but didn't modified!

Solution is simple. Just change the listener HOST entry according to the server you are restoring the DB.

vi $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/listener.ora

# listener.ora Network Configuration File: /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/network/admin/listener.ora
# Generated by Oracle configuration tools.

LISTENER =
  (DESCRIPTION_LIST =
    (DESCRIPTION =
      (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = lab)(PORT = 1521))
      (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC1521))
    )
  )

2 comments:

max said...

god job done,, i did it and my listner is working

Unknown said...

Very silly mistake but it happens