ORA 1090 Shutdown in progress

Hi, netters

I am staring at this error:
ORA-01090 Shutdown in progress for the last 30 minutes.

I did 'Shutdown normal' after connecting as internal to my instance. Is this a major crisis (not being able to do a smooth shutdown). Will my database come back to life?                          

Has anyone experienced a similar problem?

Thanks,
e-mail at bpanko_at_bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu Received on Sun Jul 23 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST