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Re: production database on aix won't be open, help

From: Charlie Mengler <charliem_at_mwh.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:28:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0048183D.20020619092832@fatcity.com>


It might be that Oracle is simply trying to rollback a _BIG_ uncommitted transaction. Once in the past I had a similar problem. The fix was amazingly simple. I increased the size of the TEMP tablespace. I suspect that if you are really, really, really patient Oracle eventually will wake from its slumber & begin normal operations.

HTH & YMMV, HAND! chal_ping wrote:
>
> oracle-lHi, grurus:
> This is a production database 8.1.7.2 on aix 4.3.3, there are 17 instances running on the same box.
> I shutdown immediate the database and it hangs.After wait for one hour, i do a shutdown abort. When i startup again, it failed to open the database , just hangs at this stage like:
> Sun Jun 16 09:36:40 2002
> SMON: enabling cache recovery
> SMON: enabling tx recovery
> And the sql*plus window hangs at : database mounted, but never showed open.
> From another shell prompt, i sqlplus internal and query the instance, it showed instance open in read write state!
> But from remote node via listener, client process showed 0134: oracle not available.
> I once met such kind of questions on sun solaris, it is because of solaris bug.But never heard of this kind on AIX. Oracle support suggest reboot the server, but as there is 16 other instance on it, it is not the solution.
> Can anyone help?
> Great thanks.
>
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