How to fix the Oracle error ORA-09847: soacon: ARCH unable to open named pipe.?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-09847: soacon: ARCH unable to open named pipe. with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-09847: soacon: ARCH unable to open named pipe.

Reason for the Error ORA-09847: soacon: ARCH unable to open named pipe.

open() failed to open named pipe ?/dbs/arch2mon_@.

How to fix the Error ORA-09847: soacon: ARCH unable to open named pipe. ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Make sure that the OS userid of the currently running database has search permission for the ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory. The max number of open files may have been exceeded.