Re: shutdown in svrmgrl is hanging

It is easier to use:

shutdown immediate

This will kill all sessions safely. Absolutely necessary if you do automatic cold backups.

By the way, if you wish to restart a session busy with shutdown you can start another session of svrmgrl and use:
startup force

Joachim.

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:50:12 -0400, Karen <karen.abgarian_at_fmr.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>We have the problem with shutdown also. I think that it has to do with
>the connected sessions and with the fact that sometimes it takes forever
>for PMON to clean up killed sessions. As a solution you can go over and
>kill all shadow processes
>(dont kill processes like PMON), after first attempting ALTER SYSTEM
>KILL
>SESSION on them. Otherwise, what we do sometimes, shutdown abort,
>startup
>restricted and shutdown normal.
>
>Hope this helps
>Karen.
>
>
>Steve Parker wrote:
>
>> hello...
>>
>> After issuing the shutdown command in svrmgrl, it just hangs forever
>> (since last night).... Just before that, I shut down a smaller DB
>> just fine...
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what would cause the shutdown process to
>> totally hang??
>>
>> Thanks,
>> steve
>

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