Error While restarting 10g Database

I am using Oracle 10g on Windows 2000.

My requirement is to add one parameter to pfile, but there is a strange error which i never come across on 9i.

SQL> shutdown immediate

SQL>startup pfile=<>
ORA-24324: Service handle not initialized
ORA-01041: Internal error: hostdef extension doesn't exist

And there is one more strange behaviour while i shutdown the database , the status of database is showing as started in windows services.

thanks in advance

Hi

Are your environmental variable proper ?

what operating system is this ?

regards
Hrishy

I am using Windows 2000

Can u tell me wat environmental variables needs to be set?

Hi

You need to set the ORACLE_HOME
and the oracle SID at minimum


Oracle_HOME would be the full path to the oracle binary executable.Oracle sid will be the name of the SID you want to connect to.

Are you able to connect through GUI version of sqlplus or enterprise manager.


regards
Hrishy