Re: Help: Can't access database.

On Mon, 25 May 1998 19:08:25 -0500, Sirirut Vanichayobon <svanicha_at_cs.ou.edu> wrote:
>Hi
>
> I am using Oracle 8 on Unix Alpha V4.0d. I have a small database. I
>started up my database by using server manager with internal account.
>Last Friday, I could access my database and be able to create tables.
> Today, I started up my database again by using server manager with
>internal accoount. This time, I got the following error message
> ERROR: ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress
> I shut down my database and started it again. I was still unable to
>access my database.
>Any help would appreciate.

There is probably something running that you need to stop before you do a shutdown.

Look in your alert log (in the directory specified in your config.ora). You may find that a process is holding your database open, so it can't shutdown (that is, you may see no shutdown message when there should be one). You may need to do a shutdown immediate or shutdown abort.

See what processes are running and kill them off. As a last resort, kill off the shutdown process if you need to.

>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-sirirut-
>
>
>

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