RE: Help on Upgrade - I'm an idiot

Jay:

Did the error generate a trace file?

Jon Walthour, BSCD
Oracle DBA
Computer Horizons
Cincinnati, Ohio

>--- Original Message ---
>From: "Miller, Jay" <JayMiller_at_TDWaterhouse.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Date: 6/12/01 3:30:31 PM
>

>I'm doing a test upgrade from 8.0.4 to 8.1.6.3. Finished the
8.1.6 upgrade.
>Was about to do the patch installation when I was called into
a meeting then
>got 2 phone calls (this all kept happening during the upgrade
also) and had
>several people stop by. Finally got back to it, started the
patch
>installation and soon realized that I hadn't shut the database
down before
>doing so. I immediately stopped to patchset installation and
tried to shut
>down the database but I get the following errors:
>
>$ svrmgrl
>
>Oracle Server Manager Release 3.1.6.0.0 - Production
>Copyright (c) 1997, 1999, Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
>
>ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
>SVRMGR> connect internal
>Password:
>
>Is there anything I can do or do I need to restore from backup
and start the
>whole procedure from scratch?
>
>
>
>2nd question: Is it possible to do the patch install and then
do the
>upgrade? The patchset instructions imply not, but there's a
technical forum
>response that implies you can. Which is it?
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