weird startup issue

Hi all,

I'm running Oracle Database 10g R2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Today I've applied a few updates to the server, including a new kernel.

After rebooting the server, the dbstart script got stuck trying to startup the databases (I have two instances), before the server login window would appear.

I logged into the server (SSH) and checked the oracle processes after the script was stuck for a few minutes, and the databases were still not fully initialized, it looked like the db startup was not really stuck, but just painfully slow, at least that was my impression.

After waiting for about 15 minutes or so and not seeing the dbs coming online, I've rebooted the server with the previous kernel: I hit the same issue.

So I removed the dbstart script for the automatic startup and rebooted the server (using the latest kernel this time).

After the server came up online, I started the dbs manually using the dbstart script: they came up quickly and w/o any issues!

I cannot figure out why the dbstart script was taking so long when in the automatica startup (IIRC it worked fine before today updates), and why the same script worked fine when called manually, just after the server come back online.

BTW, the dbstart script was the last script (S99dbstart) in the automatic startup).

I couldn't find anything useful in the logs, but may I didn't look in the right place.

Any idea?

Thanks. Received on Thu Jun 08 2006 - 10:27:06 CDT