Re: shutdown normal not shutting down

From: Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_yahoo.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:47:55 GMT
Message-ID: <L9kac.29048$wg1.7857@edtnps84>

Dave Dudiek wrote:

> I have a problem shutting down an oracle database. The oracle version is
> 8.1.7.2 running on a solaris 8 system. Basically I have tried shutting
> down the database with "shutdown normal" but it will not close as there
> are connections to the database. These connections are not active , the
> users have long since terminated their sessions leaving some old
> connections hanging around not doing anything.

Is the not-quite 'Intelligent Agent' running on the machine? That is known to keep a connection around and cause shutdown normnal to appear to hang. If it's around, try shutting it down as well.

HTH
/Hans Received on Tue Mar 30 2004 - 13:47:55 CST