Workaround for error ORA-00141: all addresses specified for parameter LOCAL_LISTENER are invalid

When trying to update your database's LOCAL_LISTENER parameter like this:

alter system set local_listener=LISTENER_CDB scope=both

and you get the following error stack:

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-32017: failure in updating SPFILE
ORA-00119: invalid specification for system parameter LOCAL_LISTENER
ORA-00141: all addresses specified for parameter LOCAL_LISTENER are invalid
ORA-00132: syntax error or unresolved network name 'LISTENER_CDB'

The solution is to first change your $TNS_ADMIN/tnsadmin.ora to correspond to the value you wish to set the local_listener parameter to. For example, change the following line:

LISTENER =
  (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = myserver.oric.no)(PORT = 1521))

to

LISTENER_CDB =
  (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = myserver.oric.no)(PORT = 1521))

For more information about the local_listener parameter, see this earlier post