TNS-12546: TNS: permission denied

Dear all,

I need help on this listener error. We have a 10g cluster database with two nodes on Windows servers. Lately, we started to run into "TNS-12546: TNS: permission denied" error randomly throughout the day. I checked the listener.log and found these errors:

TNS-12520: TNS:listener could not find available handler for requested type of server
21-MAR-2008 00:02:09 * service_update * instance1 * 0
21-MAR-2008 00:02:09 * 12546
TNS-12546: TNS: permission denied
TNS-12560: TNS: protocol adapter error
TNS-00516: Permission denied

No longer listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=hostname.com)(PORT=1521)))
Listener completed notification to CRS on stop

I also tried to connect through the command line using @alias, and got "ORA-12541: TNS:no listener" error. However, if I tried to connect again in next few second, I was able to connect without any error. I am not sure what causes it. I can understand that we were truly have permission problem if these errors occur every time when we connect, but they don't; these happened randomly throughout the day.

I checked with our network folks, but there wasn't anything done lately. Any help is very help!


Thanks in advance,
Unna

I found out these errors were caused by something, like some kind of scheduled job, that stop and start the listener every minute through out the day. I was able to put LOCAL_OS_AUTHENTICATION on listener.ora to prevent that job from stopping and starting listener. Instead of getting no listener error, I got "The listener has not recognized the password" error every minute.

We have no luck on finding what cause it. I wonder if there is something in clusterware that checks the listener status? Help please!


Thanks,
Unna