Hey all,

Does anyone out there know what could be the cause here??
I've checked the documentation and I cannot find what -1 / -17 is...

I/O function: L, mode: 0, on driver: ORA; Path: $ORA
ORA Error: -1
ORACLE Driver Error [-17]: Logon to ORACLE failed.

The ASN files haven't been touched in ages - the passwords work fine
as I can use SQL*Net/Developer to access the database....

Regards,
Knut

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Knut Dybendahl
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Hey Knut,

I've seen this before. The Oracle driver is not very chatty in case there is something wrong with the setup of the Oracle environment. For example when $ORACLE_SID or $ORACLE_HOME has an incorrect value. I guess there is nothing useful in $dberror or $dberrortext?

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Daniel

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Daniel Iseli
Principal Technical Support Engineer
Uniface Services
Rocket Software, Switzerland
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Hey Knut,

I've seen this before. The Oracle driver is not very chatty in case there is something wrong with the setup of the Oracle environment. For example when $ORACLE_SID or $ORACLE_HOME has an incorrect value. I guess there is nothing useful in $dberror or $dberrortext?

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Daniel

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Daniel Iseli
Principal Technical Support Engineer
Uniface Services
Rocket Software, Switzerland
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Hey Daniel,

This happens from the dev environment - before I even get to the main screen.

Any chance someone in the depths of the lab might look at the source code and let us
know what -17 means??

Knut

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Knut Dybendahl
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Hey Daniel,

This happens from the dev environment - before I even get to the main screen.

Any chance someone in the depths of the lab might look at the source code and let us
know what -17 means??

Knut

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Knut Dybendahl
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Hey Knut,

-17 simply means that the logon to Oracle failed. That's it. This is just a generic error that happened because of another problem. As mentioned in my initial reply, there might be something wrong with the Oracle environment (like e.g $ORACLE_SID or $ORACLE_HOME). I would check that first.

Daniel

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Daniel Iseli
Principal Technical Support Engineer
Uniface Services
Rocket Software, Switzerland
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Hey all,

Does anyone out there know what could be the cause here??
I've checked the documentation and I cannot find what -1 / -17 is...

I/O function: L, mode: 0, on driver: ORA; Path: $ORA
ORA Error: -1
ORACLE Driver Error [-17]: Logon to ORACLE failed.

The ASN files haven't been touched in ages - the passwords work fine
as I can use SQL*Net/Developer to access the database....

Regards,
Knut

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Knut Dybendahl
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Hello Knut,

I have working on a migration from Uniface 9 to Uniface 10. With this migration the database was moved to an other server. We did experience the same -17 error. We did discover that the passwords were not valid, even these had not changed. As I recall, logging on the database with SQLPlus also failed. We believe this was caused due to an other configuration of the system the database runs on.

Our problem was solved by recreating the password on the database with the same password as before.

Has the database server changed in any way like an other MAC-address, hostname or so on?

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Richard de Vries
Sogeti Nederland B.V.
Deventer NL
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Hey all,

Does anyone out there know what could be the cause here??
I've checked the documentation and I cannot find what -1 / -17 is...

I/O function: L, mode: 0, on driver: ORA; Path: $ORA
ORA Error: -1
ORACLE Driver Error [-17]: Logon to ORACLE failed.

The ASN files haven't been touched in ages - the passwords work fine
as I can use SQL*Net/Developer to access the database....

Regards,
Knut

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Knut Dybendahl
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Hi all,

PROCMON to the rescue - again....
We had a wayward oci.dll file in the folder where we start the application.
Little did I know that the base folder implicitly is the virtual 1st entry in the
PATH variable - never visible, bu that's the very 1st location searched....

All's good and life has settled down again.

Regards,
Knut

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Knut Dybendahl
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