ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

Hi All,

While running a clone script the database was put in startup no mount and creating control file was in process, after sometime i stopped the process as I was not seeing the oracle backend process though the script look like running. While trying to sqlplus I am getting this below error, Certain google pages says that we need to wait until the instance is released, but waited for a long time , still am facing this error. Please help.

bash-2.05$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba"

ERROR:
ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

Thanks,
Ann

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