Re: urgent - can't do anything till fixed

Do a 'shutdown abort'. You should not have deleted the files until the database was shut down completely. If this still doesn't work then you will have to manually kill all of the oracle processes.

Ken

kev wrote:

> Hi Oracle Jedi's,
>
> I'm trying to create a DB with a creation script. In between runs, I
> deleted the necessary files before doing a shutdown, so now whenever I
> try to do anything I get (for example):
>
> SVRMGR> shutdown
> ORA-00210: cannot open the specified controlfile
> ORA-00202: controlfile: '/u02/oradata/WWS/control01.ctl'
> ORA-27041: unable to open file
> Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
> Additional information: 3
>
> because it can't find the files I've deleted. What do I do? I can't do
> anything until I fix this :-(
>
> quick help very much appreciated,
>
> - Kev
Received on Wed Aug 18 1999 - 12:48:31 CDT