I ever met the same problem on 8.0.5, you need to reboot the machine, then
everything should be ok.
"Mike Heden" <mheden_at_bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> A system running Oracle 8.0.6 under Solaris failed overnight.
> Attempts to restart it just hang. If I do a startup nomount, it
> reaches a 'started' state OK and server manager comes back with its
> prompt. On the other hand if I do a startup mount it hangs. There's
> nothing in the alert log that indicates any sort of problem - the last
> entry is 'alter database mount'. I've also left it a long, long time
> just in case it was taking its time loading, but that has made no
> difference. Once it's in this hung state, not even control-C gets a
> response - the telnet session to the server appears dead.. There are
> no dumps and there's nothing in dmesg to indicate a more fundamental
> problem.
>
> I've tried restoring from a full hot backup taken the previous night,
> but the results are exactly the same.
>
> Fortunately this is an inactive legacy system that is only used
> occasionally to provide access to old, virtually-static, data. My
> next step is probably going to be a restore from the last cold backup.
>
> Am I missing something here? I haven't seen Oracle 'fail silently' in
> this way before, so I'm inclined to think it's not a database problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 20:13:32 CST
