Re: Unable to do a normal shutdown or Export

From: Rauf Sarwar <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 27 Jan 2003 11:17:53 -0800
Message-ID: <92eeeff0.0301271117.5accf8c1@posting.google.com>

"Tony Rees" <antonie.rees_at_btinternet.com> wrote in message news:<b13i74$6jf$1$8302bc10_at_news.demon.co.uk>...
> This seemed to resolve the export problem but not the problem with a normal
> shutdown ie
>
> shutdown normal
>
> SQL> connect internal
> Connected.
> SQL>
> SQL>
> SQL> shutdown normal;
> I then checked the alert file and it said
> SHUTDOWN: waiting for logins to complete.
> I was the only person logged into the database using a sqlplus session
> to
> connect so am a little bit confused by this one.

To explicitly shutdown normal, perform these steps immediately after one another...or run them from a script.

shutdown immediate OR abort
startup
shutdown normal

Regards
/Rauf Sarwar Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 13:17:53 CST