We 're getting a very strange problem with very few symptoms to work =
from.
It 's our policy to take cold backups of our Oracle 9.2 database, which =
runs on a Win2000 server. Consequently, the Veritas backup job first =
shuts down Agent, Listener and database, then the backup runs, then the =
job restarts the database, Listener and Agent.
All the above has worked perfectly well for several months. Until last =
night... when someone tried to connect to the database, it was apparent =
that the database was still down. I looked in the event log and found =
the following:
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Dump file d:\orant\admin\dlib\bdump\alert_dlib.log
Tue Nov 02 10:44:42 2004
ORACLE V9.2.0.2.1 - Production vsnsta=3D0
vsnsql=3D12 vsnxtr=3D3
Windows 2000 Version 5.0 Service Pack 4, CPU type 586
Tue Nov 02 10:44:42 2004
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
- - - - -
These were the last lines in the event log. It looks as though the =
startup of Oracle simply "hung ". No error messages, no trace files =
generated. Nothing, just hanging there.
We tried stopping and restarting the database service, with exactly the =
same result (the above is pasted from this later attempt, in fact). We =
tried rebooting the server. Same result. The listener log indicates no =
problems. But every attempt to startup the database gives the above =
result.
Any ideas, please?
Paul Vincent
(Desperate) DBA
University of Central England
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