Oracle Error ORA-09850: soacon: Archmon unable to lock named pipe.

Oracle Error Message

ORA-09850: soacon: Archmon unable to lock named pipe.

Reason for the Error

fcntl() failed to set write lock on named pipe ?/dbs/arch2mon_@.

Solution

Make sure that archmon is not already active on another terminal for this ORACLE_SID. Only one archmon session is allowed at a time for a given instance.