This can occur for numerous reasons, including the following :
having more than 1 archiver process due to a manual
"log archive start" command; when you do a shutdown
these 'extra' archive processes won't shutdown
There is a workaround for this situation :
alter system set log_archive_max_processes = ..
high number, e.g. 10) and do a shutdown immediate
Btw. : why not do an online backup ? that way you don't have
to shutdown. If you want to do an automated shutdown for a
cold backup and if you are on Unix, you will sooner or later
also stumble upon the twin brother of the Ora message you
are now receiving, i.e. :
"SHUTDOWN : waiting for active calls to complete",
at least when you are
Received on Thu Sep 16 2004 - 08:50:00 CDT
