Re: TIMEOUT ON CONTROL FILE ENQUEUE

In <1126284723.425815.37570_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> jkstill_at_gmail.com writes:

>1. yes, no rows returned shows that no tablespaces were in backup
>mode.
>2. starting the database should be fine.
>3. you should probably make a good backup, for your own peace of mind.
>A hot backup will be fine.

>There appears to be a lot of information on that particular ORA-600.

>The suggestions given seem like a good place to start.

>You may want to take a look at IO contention, but the fact that your
>control file was unavailable for 15 minutes and caused the instance to
>crash suggests you may want to discuss this with the system
>administrator as well.

That would be me :-)

And actually I do more of that, so I;m stronger thier than on the Oracle side.

>Faulty HW could cause this. As you are on 7.3.4 there is reason to
>suspect that this may be old HW as well. Is that the case?

Well, I suppose it is old, but it's reliable hardware, and has a lot of on line diagnostics running on it, which have been very acurate over the years.

My suspicion is that we had network problems, and the machine got tied up trying ot access a NFS mount that it could not connect to. Does this amke any sense? I'm strugling with this theory as it does not seem to me that this should prevent access to a local disk file.

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