Red Hat Network Satellite services (database & rhn search daemon) will not start

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Issue

  • After performing a satellite-sync the satellite server was rebooted. After the reboot the satellite service will not start.
  • Oracle database error messages similar to the following may be logged in /var/log/messages:
Jan 16 12:44:27 XXXXXXX logger: Warning: Oracle DB instance rhnsat possibly left running when system went down (system crash?).

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.4.1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

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