Friday, August 1, 2008

importing data dump in Oracle XE - ORACLE error 12560


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>imp

Import: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Aug 1 16:48:43 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Username: pde
Password:

IMP-00058: ORACLE error 12560 encountered
ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
IMP-00000: Import terminated unsuccessfully

C:\>

solution to this problem is to go directly to the bin folder of your XE install folder and execute 'imp' there.

hudson dependencies

to have a basic hudson instance, the pre-requisites are:

1. CVS/SVN client
2. Tomcat (as service preferred)
3. Maven2