Thank you for your help. I'm running Oracle 8i on an NT2000 server. I had an
open connection with 9i client over the network when somebody did indeed
shut down the server without informing me. Would this cause the problem? I
shut down and opened the database several times before I left it on over the
weekend. If I understand your response correctly you are saying that Oracle
cannot gracefully close it's sessions. Is this true?
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Terry Wallace
"Telemachus" <telemachus_at_ulysseswillreturn.net> wrote in message
news:47JP8.2002$vB.13857_at_news.indigo.ie...
> 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.
Received on Wed Jun 19 2002 - 00:19:07 CDT
