ORA-12547: TNS: lost contact

Scenerio
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Local connection fails when connecting with / as sysdba

$ sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue May 7 12:15:02 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Enter user-name : / as sysdba
ERROR:
ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact
Enter user-name:

Work around
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Relink the Oracle binaries by executing the following command,

$ cd ORACLE_HOME/bin
$ relink all


$ sqlplus

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue May 7 12:17:05 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Enter user-name: / as sysdba

Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.3.0 - Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 9.2.0.3.0 - Production