Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

Chris,

We hang on shutdown immediate, not startup. That's why I choose to use shutdown abort.

Joan

Chris Berry wrote:
>
> > > > >"Schauss, Peter" wrote:
> > > > > I have one Oracle instance which supports an application
> > > > > server which always maintains a database connection.
> > > > > The UNIX system administrator tells me that this instance always
> > > > > hangs when she tries to shut down the system. The other instances,
> > > > > which do not support a 24x7 process shut down properly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Looking at $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbshut, I notice that the input to
> >sqlplus
> > > > > is
> > > > > connect internal
> > > > > shutdown
> > > > >
> > > > > Should I modify the script to "shutdown immediate" so that it kills
> > > > > any connections?
> > > > >
> > > > > Environment is Oracle 8.1.7 /AIX 4.3.3.
> > > >From: Joan Hsieh <joan.hsieh_at_tufts.edu>
> > > >Peter,
> > > >I modified to shutdown abort, starup then shutdown immediate.
> > >
> > > Shutdown abort is pretty drastic, are you sure shutdown immediate didn't
> > > work?
>
> >From: Joan Hsieh <joan.hsieh_at_tufts.edu>
> >At first, we do shutdown immediate, then startup. But we do have couple
> >times hang there and couldn't do the cold backup. Since changed to
> >shutdown abort, startup and shutdown immediate, we don't have any
> >problem at all. our database is in archive mode. Since our production
> >database has to refresh to reporting database nightly. I couldn't do
> >checkpoint before shutdown abort. (some error, forgot on reporting
> >database) otherwise, I will add to it.
>
> If it's hanging on the startup I recommend trying this:
>
> shutdown immediate
> startup nomount
> alter database mount
> alter database open
>
> You should get an error message at one of those steps that will lead you to
> the real problem.
>
> Chris Berry
> compjma_at_hotmail.com
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