Re: DB Shutdown

Apart from the sound advice from TurkBear, check if the Intelligent Agent is still
running - if so, kill that first: net stop OracleOracle_HomeAgent, or whatever
you Agent service is called (the oracle home is in the name...)

Colleen wrote:

> How long should it take to process a SHUTDOWN NORMAL command in svrmgr
> (assuming that there are no DB connections)?
> I processed the command and then waited about 15 minutes. Nothing
> happened, so I closed SVRMGR and rebooted the server.
>
> When I rebooted and tried to open the database using NT Services, I got
> ORA-1053 error that database could not be started.
>
> How can I diagnose the problem?
>
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