RE: Rollback waiting on 'cache buffer chains' latch - SOLVED

That's another odd thing about this situation - even after multiple
'alter system kill session' statements, and identifying the
v$process.spid and killing it with "kill -9", v$session still showed the status as ACTIVE.  

When I tried to kill it again later I got this:

14:58:39 SQL> select serial# from v$session where sid=664;

   SERIAL#

     62086

14:59:34 SQL> alter system kill session '664,62086'; alter system kill session '664,62086'
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00030: User session ID does not exist.

No, there was no other session blocking this one.

Thanks,
Brandon    

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Ajay

Yes. It would help to know the steps.
Sometimes if we kill at sqlplus level using alter system it is not possible to get the corresponding OS session and it keeps hanging in
'KILLED' status.

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