Marius Dreyer (dreyerm@iafrica.com) wrote:
: Hi everyone !
: 
: Has any ever done a shutdown immediate which did not shut down at all ?
: I know that if there is a long running transaction, it will take a while to
: rollback, but what if there is none ?
: Running 7.3.3 on Sun Solaris 2.51. 
: 
: Thanks in advance
: Marius
: 
: /* Africa is not for sissies */

Marius,

If someone is in the login process, then "shutdown immediate" will not
work, and will hang. Eventually, you will see a trace file saying "waiting
for logins to complete". For example, try issuing sqlplus, but when it
prompts you for a username/password, do not enter anything. Open another
window and try "shutdown immediate". You will see that Oracle will not
shut down.

You will either have to shutdown abort, or have a program kill all oracle
connections and then to a shutdown immediate.

-Ari Kaplan
Independent Oracle DBA Consultant

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