John,
Shut down the database and look for any running arch processes. My guess is
that when the database when down with an abort, arch did not terminate
cleanly. If an orphaned arch process is still running, kill it. Then try
starting up the database.
> From: John <jwilson_at_napanet.net>
> Organization: NapaNet (napanet.net)
> Reply-To: jwilson_at_napanet.net
> Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 19:18:42 GMT
> Subject: ARCH won't start ***URGENT***
>
> I'm having a problem whose answer should be obvious, but I don't see
> it.
>
> Yesterday, an offline backup script that I was testing forced a database
> down with shutdown abort (dumb) and now I can not get the ARCH process
> to start....
>
> I was running with archivelog and had the init<sid>.ora file parameters
> set to do automatic archiving. So far, all has worked fine, including
> after some power crashes recently.
>
> Nothing was seen in the alert log and I could find no other trace files
> to indicate the problem.....
>
> I finally got the database up by going to noarchivelog and stopping any
> automatic archiving. I don't like to run that way.
>
> I'm grasping for straws now. Any help will be graciously appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
Received on Sun Feb 13 2000 - 22:55:29 CST
