Help on Upgrade - I'm an idiot

From: Miller, Jay <JayMiller_at_tdwaterhouse.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:20:40 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003260D7.20010612113030@fatcity.com>

I'm doing a test upgrade from 8.0.4 to 8.1.6.3. Finished the 8.1.6 upgrade. Was about to do the patch installation when I was called into a meeting then got 2 phone calls (this all kept happening during the upgrade also) and had several people stop by. Finally got back to it, started the patch installation and soon realized that I hadn't shut the database down before doing so. I immediately stopped to patchset installation and tried to shut down the database but I get the following errors:

$ svrmgrl

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel SVRMGR> connect internal
Password:

Is there anything I can do or do I need to restore from backup and start the whole procedure from scratch?

2nd question: Is it possible to do the patch install and then do the upgrade? The patchset instructions imply not, but there's a technical forum response that implies you can. Which is it?
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Author: Miller, Jay
INET: JayMiller_at_TDWaterhouse.com

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