Re: Shutdown immediate hang.

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 21:11:07 +0800
Message-ID: <387342EB.1B4@yahoo.com>

Joe wrote:
>
> In a situation that there is no Oracle Instance or Service
> running, when I issue the following command once more
>
> SVRMGR> shutdown immediate
>
> in the Server Manager, the Server Manager hangs (or waiting
> for something). I have to Ctrl-C or open
> another session and server manager, then issue
> shutdown abort in order to get the UNIX prompt back.
>
> My version of Oracle is 8.1.5 running on Sparc Solaris 2.6
>
> I want to know whether the shutdown immediate can't
> work in such case. I do not have this problem in ver 7.3.4.
>
> Thank in advance.
>
> Joe
> joetin_at_netvigator.com

This has been especially common in 7.x versions, and still happens occassionally on 8.

An easy workaround is stick a

(sleep 15mins; if oracle running then shutdown abort; startup; shutdown) in the background before you issue your shutdown immediate. Then 99 times out of 100, the immediate will be down, on those other odd times, the database will still come down
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Connor McDonald
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"Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." Received on Wed Jan 05 2000 - 07:11:07 CST