Re: shutdown immediate hangs

Dave,

We've periodically had this problem with various jobs that were running at the time of the shutdown immediate. I try to isolate the cause by killing the various processes I still see running via ps -ef | grep SID.

Sometimes the problem has been our RMAN backup that is running, sometimes it's a problem with our piped export script, and sometimes it is our third party monitoring tool, Precise.

A simple solution would be to do a shutdown abort, startup restrict, and a normal shutdown instead of shutdown immediate.

Another solution would be to write a script that checks to see what processes are still running and kill them all.

Cherie Machler
Oracle DBA
Gelco Information Network

                                                                                       
                                    
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I have Oracle 8.1.7 running on windoze NT 4.0. Every night I have a script that kicks off a cold backup. Part of the script issues the command

SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE which normally works just fine before I actually copy my files. However, periodically the "shutdown immediate" command does not work. It just hangs until someone complains that they cannot connect to the database or when I come in early in the morning and notice it hanging. In my <SID>Alrt.log I get the following

SHUTDOWN: waiting for active calls to complete

This also shows up in a trace file file multiple times. I have to issue a "shutdown abort" to stop the database.

In doing some research on metalink I see that otheres also have this problem. The responses from Oracle are somewhat vague. I do see that one of the responses seems to indicate that if the intelligent agent is running that it could be the cause for the hanging. Has anyone else had this problem and solved it by shutting down the intelligent agent service?? Any other things that I can do to remedy this.

Thanks,

Dave

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