RE: Cannot start database (already running)

Or go into svrmgrl, connect internal, issue a shutdown abort, then startup.

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217

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> From: Hately Mike [SMTP:Mike.Hately_at_churchill.com]
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> Subject: RE: Cannot start database (already running)
>
> Barb,
> check for an LK<dbname> file in your $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory too. If
> it's
> there, delete it.
> Just another thing to try.
>
> Regards,
> Mike Hately
>
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>
>
> Oracle 8.0.5
> Solaris 2.6
> HA Cluster 2.1
>
> This is wacky.
> Any ideas on this one (other than reboot the box)???
> I cannot start up this database (claims it's already running).
> Clearly it is not. No background processes for this instance. The only
> process I see even remotely related to this database is the oracledesi
> process. (I don't know what that process is.)
>
> I do have a semaphore set for oracle. Should I remove it? (I normally
> have
> other databases on this box, but I've shut them all down.)
>
> This database worked fine till a network device was ripped out from under
> it, and the HA stuff kicked in and failed it over.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks for any help
>
> Barb
>
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