Locks won't go away in V 7

Couldn't find in DBA -FAQ 1.4, so here goes:

mon lock shows a few processes waiting for PID 11, Serial# 11168.

WHen I try to alter system kill session (11, 11168) I get this error:

ORA-00026 - Missing or invalid session ID

When I get the AIX system process number from mon process
and kill it, something restarts a new process with another system process number.

How can I clean up this deadlock?

We have Oracle 7.0 running on a RS6000.

Thanks.

Dean Received on Wed Oct 19 1994 - 23:10:03 CET