Re: orasrv: server already running: Address already in use

peter.steele_at_acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes:

> This error occurs when orasrv, the oracle kernel daemon, is
> shutdown and the restart command is issued to soon after the
> shutdown. Waiting a couple of minutes usually solves the problem.
> However, we occasional get a situation where orasrv gets confused
> and will issue this error indefinitely. The only way we've discovered
> to clear this error is by rebooting, which isn't desirable on
> a production machine.
>
> Has anyone seen this error, where Oracle gets confused and won't
> let you restart orasrv?
> --

If you are on a unix machine, run ipcs to find out what semaphores and shared memory areas are being used. Run ipcrm to remove them. Then do a normal start. I've also run into this when given a bad Oracle installation tape, which required the additional step of chmod +x on the executables.

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