Oracle error - shutdown in progress

From: hanu <linarayan_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 6 Feb 2006 14:28:56 -0800
Message-ID: <1139264936.110788.325340@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Hello,
I am getting the following error:
ORA-01089: immediate shutdown in progress - no operations are permitted I ran 'shutdown immediate'. then it kind of stuck there for long time and i had to kill the session as usually it is very fast. Ay ideas please, how can we resolve this? I have also stopped the oracle listener.
Thanks.

This is from my alert.log file

Mon Feb 6 13:45:48 2006
Shutting down instance: further logons disabled Shutting down instance (immediate)
Mon Feb 6 13:45:52 2006
ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Mon Feb 6 13:45:53 2006
SMON: disabling tx recovery
SMON: disabling cache recovery
Mon Feb 6 13:45:53 2006
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Thread 1 closed at log sequence 11764
Successful close of redo thread 1.
Mon Feb 6 13:45:54 2006
Completed: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Mon Feb 6 13:45:55 2006
ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
Mon Feb 6 13:46:29 2006
ARCH shutting down
ARC0: Archival stopped
Mon Feb 6 13:46:38 2006
ARCH shutting down
ARC1: Archival stopped
Mon Feb 6 14:03:56 2006
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Mon Feb 6 14:09:00 2006
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Mon Feb 6 14:17:46 2006

Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)

Mon Feb 6 15:29:41 2006
Starting ORACLE instance (normal) Received on Mon Feb 06 2006 - 16:28:56 CST