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Shannon - Help me with the situation. Is this like when the archive disk is
full and Oracle politely waits until you make more space? For that situation
I've always just moved some archive logs somewhere else and the database
immediately takes off. Is that your situation, or have I missed something
here?
Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:24 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
sorry
after checking logs again, the connect / as sysdba command and sqlplus '/ as
sysdba' hung after issuing the command. a password was never requested.
thanks
shannon
Situation:
Oracle EE 9.2.0 database on AIX v5.1
tail alert_TOOLS.log:
Thu Aug 28 13:46:31 2003
ARC0: Evaluating archive log 1 thread 1 sequence 69800
ARC0: Beginning to archive log 1 thread 1 sequence 69800
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1:
'/u00/oracle/archives/tools_698
00.dbf'
ARC0: Completed archiving log 1 thread 1 sequence 69800
Thu Aug 28 13:46:33 2003
Archive Log Stop
Archiving is disabled
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Thu Aug 28 13:46:34 2003
ARCH shutting down
Thu Aug 28 13:46:34 2003
ARC0: Archival stopped
Thu Aug 28 13:46:34 2003
ARCH shutting down
Thu Aug 28 13:46:34 2003
ARC1: Archival stopped
Thu Aug 28 13:46:39 2003
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 69802
Current log# 2 seq# 69802 mem# 0: /u09/oracle/TOOLS/redo02.log
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 69803
Current log# 1 seq# 69803 mem# 0: /u09/oracle/TOOLS/redo01.log
Thu Aug 28 13:46:48 2003
ORACLE Instance TOOLS - Can not allocate log, archival required
ARCH: Connecting to console port...
Thread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence 69804
All online logs needed archiving
Current log# 1 seq# 69803 mem# 0: /u09/oracle/TOOLS/redo01.log
so the archive hung.
on our older 7x and 8x systems, I would do a svrmgrl and connect internal then I would do an archive log all to archive the logs
on this 9.2.0 system, I tried sqlplus 'sys as sysdba' --- it hung after
asking for the password
ok... tried sqlplus /nolog --- then connect sys as sysdba -- hung after
asking for password
ok... tried sqlplus '/ as sysdba' -- hung after asking for password
ok... tried sqlplus /nolog -- then connect / as sysdba -- hung after asking
for password
Killed smon to cause database to crash.
sqlplus 'sys as sysdba' -- asked for password -- got the sql prompt -
startup
everything worked.
I'm glad this is a test database so I could kill it and restart but what is the correct method to get a sql prompt on a hung database when svrmgrl and connect internal aren't supported?
Thanks
Shannon
Shannon St. Dennis
Database Administrator
City of Regina
(306) 777-7415 (phone)
(306) 777-6804 (fax)
sstdenni_at_cityregina.com <mailto:sstdenni_at_cityregina.com>
The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA
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