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ORA-01940 Cannot drop user that is currently connected after STARTUP RESTRICT [message #452288]

Wed, 21 April 2010 02:18

Frank
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Part of the rebuild process of our development environment is dropping and recreating the database user the AppServer uses to connect.
Since the application server is configured to reconnect as soon as a connection drops, I thought I'd shutdown the database and restart it in restricted mode.
However, yesterday I still ran into an "ORA-01940: cannot drop a user that is currently connected" error.
The only thing I can think of is that at startup, the database starts rolling forward & back any unfinished transactions.
Could that be the issue?
(and no, the user does not have restricted session privs Smile

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Re: ORA-01940 Cannot drop user that is currently connected after STARTUP RESTRICT [message #452297 is a reply to message #452288]

Wed, 21 April 2010 04:04

pokhraj_d
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Hi Frank,

Please let me know the DB version?

Thanks-
P

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Re: ORA-01940 Cannot drop user that is currently connected after STARTUP RESTRICT [message #452299 is a reply to message #452297]

Wed, 21 April 2010 04:20

Frank
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11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0

Is there a difference in behaviour between the various versions in this aspect?

[Edit: changed version. Took version of my local db initially Embarassed

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[Updated on: Wed, 21 April 2010 04:24]

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Re: ORA-01940 Cannot drop user that is currently connected after STARTUP RESTRICT [message #452305 is a reply to message #452288]

Wed, 21 April 2010 04:35

pokhraj_d
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First check if there is no duplicate of SQLPLUS_PRODUCT_PROFILE and/or DUAL.

SQL> SELECT owner, object_id, object_type, object_name, status
FROM dba_objects
WHERE object_name = 'SQLPLUS_PRODUCT_PROFILE';

SQL> SELECT owner, object_id, object_type, object_name, status
FROM dba_objects
WHERE object_name = 'DUAL';
If no duplicate row then this is Bug#3799696

Thanks-
P

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Re: ORA-01940 Cannot drop user that is currently connected after STARTUP RESTRICT [message #452333 is a reply to message #452305]

Wed, 21 April 2010 07:00

Frank
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I guess you got the wrong bug number, since mentioned bug applies to versions < 10.2, which I don't have. (both the version I initially provided and the version I edited it to)
Besides, the bug description has nothing to do with what I described.

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Re: ORA-01940 Cannot drop user that is currently connected after STARTUP RESTRICT [message #452337 is a reply to message #452333]

Wed, 21 April 2010 07:33

ThomasG
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Registered: April 2005
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Three things that come to my mind:

1) Are there any queues/advanced replication involved? (Is the user a "owner" of anything in dba_queues, dba_apply, dba_capture, dba_propagation ?)

2) I guess you already checked if the user is in v$session.

3) Are there any jobs / schedules configured with that user that might start after you start the db?

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