Re: ORA-01033

More info needed.

However this msg normally means what it says on the tin.

Somebody did a shutdown and it's waiting for disconnects so it can come down.

Or it's taking a long time to come up. probably first answer though.

If you're the DBA - disconnect the sessions after checking - it should come down.
"Terry Wallace" <twallace_at_NoSPAMActic.com> wrote in message news:3d0f4c92$0$3203$724ebb72_at_reader2.ash.ops.us.uu.net...
> I'm an Oracle novice and I would appreciate any assistance. I'm having a
> problem with an "ORA-01033 ORACLE initializatoin or shutdown in progress"
> when I try to log into any instance. The database was working fine and
then
> simply wouldn't let me log in. The version is Oracle 8i. This is not a
> mission critical database so if necessary I can could simply reinstall
> Oracle but I would like to know how to handle this problem. I have read
> several older posts about this problem but I don't see any solutions.
Could
> somebody please help with what is causing this error message and how to
fix
> it.
>
> --
> Terry Wallace
>
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 18 2002 - 11:22:24 CDT