Re: waiting for logins to complete.

You're creating a standby database prior to the COLD backup??

I would think shutdown IMMEDIATE is sufficient for a cold backup. When was the last time you had a failed startup just after a shutdown IMMEDIATE? For me, never. So, if you're backing up every single file, the restored image of those files will start just as well.

I wonder whether a Windows hiccupp played a role in the mystery below...

-Kevin

"Anthony Hogan" <anon_at_spain.es> wrote in message news:3BD56AAB.5D04255C_at_spain.es...
> Hi all,
> I'm running 8.1.7.0 SE on win 2000.
> For our nightly cold backups I shut down the database using a batch
> program to call this script:
>
> connect internal/oracle_at_database
> alter database create standby controlfile as
> 'C:\oracle\oradata\nomina\xx' reuse;
> alter system archive log current;
> shutdown immediate
> startup
> shutdown
> exit
>
> It's been running fine for months but last night it hung on the second
> shutdown.
>
> AlertLog <snip>
> Shutting down instance (immediate)
> License high water mark = 6
> Mon Oct 22 23:01:14 2001
> ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
> Mon Oct 22 23:01:14 2001
> SMON: disabling tx recovery
> SMON: disabling cache recovery
> Mon Oct 22 23:01:16 2001
> Thread 1 closed at log sequence 2251
> Mon Oct 22 23:01:17 2001
> Completed: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
> Mon Oct 22 23:01:17 2001
> ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
> Completed: ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
> archiving is disabled
> Mon Oct 22 23:01:19 2001
> ARCH shutting down
> ARC0: Archival stopped
> Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 8.1.7.0.0.
> ....
> ....
> Completed: alter database open
> Shutting down instance (normal)
> License high water mark = 2
> Mon Oct 22 23:06:43 2001
> SHUTDOWN: waiting for logins to complete.
> ....
>
> I had to shutdown abort when I arrived this morning. When I opened the
> DB one of my index datafiles was offline.
>
> I know there were no users trying to connect and I'm at a loss as to why
> the DB should hang.
>
> Could anyone shed some light on this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Anthony Hogan
> hogananthony_at_hotmail.com
Received on Tue Oct 23 2001 - 13:47:22 CDT