Following Red Hat Network Satellite 5.5 upgrade, Oracle errors "ORA-12519: TNS:no appropriate service handler found" may be logged

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Issue

Customer upgraded their Satellite environment, which uses an external Oracle database, to 5.5. Immediately following the upgrade, they noticed a repeating error message in logs and traceback emails:

'ERROR', 'Connection attempt failed', 12519, 'ORA-12519: TNS:no appropriate service handler found\n'

Environment

Red Hat Network Satellite (RHN) 5.5

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