Re: Cold backup blues (UNIX)...
Date: 1996/08/31
Message-ID: <50a6ne$5uai_at_elmo.cadvision.com>#1/1
In article <3227A055.3932_at_worldnet.att.net>,
nchintala <nchintala_at_worldnet.att.net> writes:
>> Is it an HP-UX issue, do you think?
>
>I don't think so. We encountered the same problem on Solaris 2.5 with
>Oracle 7.2.3. Shutdown immediate hangs forever with a message in the
>alert*.log file "waiting for users to disconnect". There were no users
>
>Thanks for any input regarding this problem. Please email also.
>
This is an ORACLE BUG. If you look in the alert log during shutdown
immediate, ORACLE will tell about a process that it can't kill. If you
do a few selects on v$session, you will see that there are some ORACLE
sessions, (maybe only one) where the serial# changes several times a
second. Rather naturally the kill 'session,serial' command cannot
work. ORACEL has never issued (to the best of my knowledge) a patch
for this, nor even officially recognized it as a bad bug.
Bill Received on Sat Aug 31 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST