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I believe I've found the problem. I did an ipcs and I've discovered that Oracle was holding semaphones and shared memory with the database down. Thanks for your help.
"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I wonder why pmon is trying to do an alter session/system -
> is its some detail of trying to clean up a failed session, perhaps.
> Were there any signs of other sessions failing and dumping
> trace files at the same time ?
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Received on Thu Feb 01 2001 - 20:29:44 CST
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