SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Tue Aug 26 16:06:06 2014

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ERROR:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

Enter user-name:
ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

Enter user-name:
ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

SP2-0157: unable to CONNECT to ORACLE after 3 attempts, exiting SQL*Plus
[oracle@vmrac1 ~]$ cat /tmp/strace_sysdb1a.output
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
31.05 0.001321 1 1600 326 open
19.93 0.000848 1 839 5 read
16.06 0.000683 137 5 execve
11.71 0.000498 0 1375 mmap
8.56 0.000364 0 773 munmap
6.16 0.000262 2 138 write
2.37 0.000101 0 1329 close
1.55 0.000066 0 303 fstat
1.18 0.000050 1 96 84 shmget
0.87 0.000037 0 227 rt_sigaction
0.56 0.000024 1 21 socket
0.00 0.000000 0 227 55 stat
0.00 0.000000 0 34 4 lstat
0.00 0.000000 0 94 lseek
0.00 0.000000 0 136 mprotect
0.00 0.000000 0 31 brk
0.00 0.000000 0 65 rt_sigprocmask
0.00 0.000000 0 3 1 ioctl
0.00 0.000000 0 66 65 access
0.00 0.000000 0 8 pipe
0.00 0.000000 0 20 shmat
0.00 0.000000 0 4 dup
0.00 0.000000 0 16 16 connect
0.00 0.000000 0 5 bind
0.00 0.000000 0 4 clone
0.00 0.000000 0 49 uname
0.00 0.000000 0 20 shmdt
0.00 0.000000 0 139 fcntl
0.00 0.000000 0 22 getdents
0.00 0.000000 0 20 getcwd
0.00 0.000000 0 4 chdir
0.00 0.000000 0 108 108 mkdir
0.00 0.000000 0 2 readlink
0.00 0.000000 0 6 chmod
0.00 0.000000 0 161 getrlimit
0.00 0.000000 0 28 times
0.00 0.000000 0 29 getuid
0.00 0.000000 0 1 getgid
0.00 0.000000 0 13 geteuid
0.00 0.000000 0 1 getegid
0.00 0.000000 0 4 getppid
0.00 0.000000 0 8 4 setsid
0.00 0.000000 0 4 sigaltstack
0.00 0.000000 0 5 arch_prctl
0.00 0.000000 0 14 setrlimit
0.00 0.000000 0 8 gettid
0.00 0.000000 0 16 futex
0.00 0.000000 0 5 set_tid_address
0.00 0.000000 0 5 set_robust_list
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.004254 8091 668 total

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