A number of issues could cause this. A few specific errors that I got were ORA-01034 & ORA-27101. What finally fixed the problem for me was running the following from the command line: set oracle_sid = grms sqlplus /nolog conn system/manager as sysdba shutdown abort startup I found this on http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1845760
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