ORA-00119: invalid specification for system parameter LOCAL_LISTENER

Welcome back after a weekend off, every body is waiting for weekend, we too. Some times when return to office some of the stuffs not working properly. Do not know why, any alien?

Some thing happen, we returned and tried to startup services, it was not working, throws below error. Without database we can not start our work, so need to fix this on higher priority.

I followed below step to fix this and resolved and working fine, you guys can also follow below step if you have faced the same problem. Do not afraid just fire the commands after verifying the paths.

ORA-00119: invalid specification for system parameter LOCAL_LISTENER
ORA-00132: syntax error or unresolved network name 'LISTENER_ORCL'

Problem
E:\app\*****\admin\orcl\pfile
Open pfile in editor

local_listener=LISTENER_ORCL

Solution
Update the below entry (orcl is a local database sid)
local_listener=orcl



startup pfile='E:\app\*****\admin\orcl\pfile\init.ora'

create spfile from pfile='E:\app\*****\admin\orcl\pfile\init.ora' ;

shu immediate

startup