Re: Question on Startup

From: IANAL_VISTA <IANAL_Vista_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:54:52 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns971297D12840BSunnySD@70.168.83.30>

"amerar_at_iwc.net" <amerar_at_iwc.net> wrote in news:1132329310.507648.160090_at_g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Hi All,
>
> Just trying to find out if anyone has ever had this problem, and what
> the issue was.
>
> We applied the latest patch list night to our 50 servers. This morning
> two of the databases were down.
>
> However, when I logged into SQLPLUS, it said "Connected to an idle
> instance". When I tried to start the database it says "Instance
> already running".
>
> So, I did a shutdown abort and then restarted the instance and all was
> fine.
>
> But, what caused the problem above?

PEBKAC! I know that Oracle itself did not spontaneously go into that state.

Something simlar may occur if/when 1 or more background processes got terminated at the OS level. Received on Fri Nov 18 2005 - 16:54:52 CST