Re: Database down

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff Wiegard
up. I have the database backup. I am afraid > however, > that the problem is still floating around. > > Briefly, here is what occured: > > I restarted Oracle because our application was unable to connect. > I > could connect through svrmgrl, but a 'select sysdate from

RE: Database down

2001-12-11 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Or check whether u have a large pool too..reduce the large_pool_size parameter. Samir Sarkar Oracle DBA - Lennon Team SchlumbergerSema Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +44 (0) 115 - 95 76217 EPABX : +44 (0) 115 - 957 6418 Ext. 76217 Fax : +44 (0) 115 - 957 60

Re: Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Edward Shevtsov
at the problem is still floating around. > > Briefly, here is what occured: > > I restarted Oracle because our application was unable to connect. > I > could connect through svrmgrl, but a 'select sysdate from dual' > just > hung. So I brought the database down, and re

RE: Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Mohan, Ross
maybe a mild uptick in resource contention after adding a third app server passed over some internal threshold? -Original Message- Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 4:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I discovered the trace file after restarting Oracle - so that process ID i

RE: Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Jeff Wiegard
I have the database backup. I am afraid however, that the problem is still floating around. Briefly, here is what occured: I restarted Oracle because our application was unable to connect. I could connect through svrmgrl, but a 'select sysdate from dual' just hung. So I brought the dat

RE: Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Mohan, Ross
ecause our application was unable to connect. I could connect through svrmgrl, but a 'select sysdate from dual' just hung. So I brought the database down, and recieved the memory segment error. So we were having problems while the database was up. Here is a trace file dump that may be l

Re: Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Jeff Wiegard
hung. So I brought the database down, and recieved the memory segment error. So we were having problems while the database was up. Here is a trace file dump that may be linked to the problem: PMON unable to acquire latch 80002060 modify parameter values possible holder pid = 58 o

RE: Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Mohan, Ross
ipcs -a ipcrm - -Original Message- Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Jeff, 1. the previous killed instance that still holds a shared memory segment ? 2. unappropriatedly large parameters of shared_pool and/or db_block_buffers ? Rega

Re: Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Edward Shevtsov
Hi Jeff, 1. the previous killed instance that still holds a shared memory segment ? 2. unappropriatedly large parameters of shared_pool and/or db_block_buffers ? Regards, Ed > ORA-27123: unable to attach to shared memory segment > SVR4 Error: 12: Not enough space > > Any ideas? -- Please se

Re: Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Ruth Gramolini
There is not enough memory on the server to allocate the shared memory that the init.ora requires. Make you shared_pool smaller and try again. Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 2:25 PM > ORA-27123: un

RE: Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Kevin Lange
I ran into this problem before. oracle had crashed and we could not restart. So , If oracle is truely shut down on that box do an ipcs -m to show all active memory segments. Find the ones owned by oracle and do an ipcrm -M key and remove the shared memory . I did then , then the da

Database down

2001-12-10 Thread Jeff Wiegard
ORA-27123: unable to attach to shared memory segment SVR4 Error: 12: Not enough space Any ideas? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jeff Wiegard INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, Cali

Re: Another Database Down

2001-05-25 Thread Jared Still
Interesting stuff about 'fuzzy' SCN's and files. A couple of notes on MetaLink with pertinent information: 22956.1 1015544.102 The second one has the added benefit of making clear why your database should be shut down cleanly before taking a cold backup. Jared On Friday 25 May 2001 07:46, J

RE: Another Database Down

2001-05-25 Thread Jim Hawkins
Laura, I fight this nearly every damn day. We constantly refresh several SAP systems from production copies via EMC BCV's and TimeFinder. About half of the time, I get the same error, where recovery was successful, but open resetlogs would fail. It turns out, in my case, that no amount of r

RE: Another Database Down

2001-05-25 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Another Database Down Just to put you a little more in the picture I have recovered a couple of DBs now without archived redo log files etc where all hope had been lost and resumes were being updated and got them back by fudging a couple of issues. (Oracle would probably throw

RE: Another Database Down

2001-05-24 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: Another Database Down From Metalink,     In Oracle releases before 7.3.3 on Unix it was possible for two instances to   mount the same database using different values for ORACLE_SID when not  running in Parallel Server mode. This could cause database corruption  as two independent

RE: Another Database Down

2001-05-24 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Another Database Down No, I did not know about this.  Could you explain or tell me where I can find info on this?   Laura -Original Message-From: Robertson Lee - lerobe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 3:51 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

Re:Another Database Down

2001-05-24 Thread dgoulet
ind that rabbit in the hat. Thank you in advance, Laura Another Database Down Well, I think the time for jubilation has been short-lived for me.  The production database was recovered successfully due to archiving and luck.  I also have a small, inhouse, remedy (help desk) database that I haven&#

RE: Another Database Down

2001-05-24 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: Another Database Down Have you tried removing/moving the lk file in the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory ??   Lee    -Original Message-From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 24 May 2001 00:27To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Another

RE: Database Down

2001-05-24 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: RE: Database Down Woo Hoo, well done and have a virtual (drink of your choice) on me.   I know it is really scary when you get thrown in at the deep end like this but if you are anything like me, after this happened to me for the first time and I had, by all means at my disposal

Re: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Jared Still
controlfile because Oracle won't be able to tell when it should > assume recovery is complete. > > Rachel > > > From: Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

RE: Another Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Shreter, Hilary
Title: Another Database Down No need to panic yet! Check out Metalink note 1034037.6 which has about 4 possible reasons for this -- all pretty simple. -Original Message-From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:27 PMTo: Multiple

RE: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: RE: Database Down Whoopsby all means...LOL -Original Message-From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 6:31 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Database Down -Original Message

RE: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Database Down -Original Message-From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Amen Sister!!  I am afraid you all will have to be my virtual party people, since I am the only one around here that got excited when the recovery was done...so have a great

Another Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Another Database Down Well, I think the time for jubilation has been short-lived for me.  The production database was recovered successfully due to archiving and luck.  I also have a small, inhouse, remedy (help desk) database that I haven't done anything with and now recove

NT-RE: Database Down-Dump and Mail Event Logs

2001-05-23 Thread Scott Crabtree
Title: RE: Database Down Here some help from Paul Drake on NT diagnostics tools you can put in place to send yourself event logs. Sample code to email event logs C:\>blat -install mail.mydomain.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Failed to open registry key for Blat profile , using default. SMTP ser

Re: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
racle won't be able to tell when it should assume recovery is complete. Rachel >From: Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Database Down >Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:31

RE: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: RE: Database Down Amen Sister!!  I am afraid you all will have to be my virtual party people, since I am the only one around here that got excited when the recovery was done...so have a great time!!   Laura :) -Original Message-From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 23 May 2001,Jared Still scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: ->Backup is easy, recovery is not always so. -> ->Jared -> Now there's a quote that should go into "Zen and the Art of ORACLE Database Administration"... now who's writing that again?;-) -- Bill Thater Certifiab

RE: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Database Down >-Original Message- >From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >My database is up and with no data loss!!! Congratulations! I've done the exercises in Rama Velpuri's book, but when it comes to a live situation, it's a lit

RE: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread April Wells
ou came in. Yell. Scream. And DOCUMENT what went wrong... to everyone you can think of. Rachel >From: Paul Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Database Down >Date: Wed, 23 May 200

Re: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 23 May 2001,Rachel Carmichael scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: ->Yell. Scream. And DOCUMENT what went wrong... to everyone you can think of. -> ->Rachel Including sending copies to yourself at an account off site, then save it there. BCC is your friend.;-) -- Bill Thater

Re: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
p and why it waited until you came in. Yell. Scream. And DOCUMENT what went wrong... to everyone you can think of. Rachel >From: Paul Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Database

RE: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: RE: Database Down My database is up and with no data loss!!!  I was able to do a complete recovery, not incomplete. After the coca-cola (for caffeine) to calm my nerves I had the sysadmin restore the datafiles and archive logs from the hot backup from Friday.  The control files 1 and

RE: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Djordje Jankovic
>> I thought I would have to restore all datafiles and archive logs from >> the physical backup so that they would be in sync, and then 'recover' >> the database using the hot backup. This would only incur minimum data >> loss since Saturday is a non-work day for most employees. After reading >>

Re: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Jared Still
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 01:00, Paul Drake wrote: > > 0. caffeine. Agreed. > 2. You *will* be performing incomplete recovery. Recover until cancel, > preferably with a backup controlfile. >Did you create a backup controlfile as part of the hot backup on May > 11th? Restore with that controlf

Re: Database Down

2001-05-23 Thread Paul Drake
> "Burton, Laura L." wrote: > > I have an Oracle 8.0.5 database residing on a Windows NT operating > system which uses Raid5. The 'almost never' has happened; two disks > have gone bad at the same time. As fate would have it the 'complete' > physical backup performed the day before the disks cr

Database Down

2001-05-22 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Database Down I have an Oracle 8.0.5 database residing on a Windows NT operating system which uses Raid5.  The 'almost never' has happened; two disks have gone bad at the same time.  As fate would have it the 'complete' physical backup performed the day before the d

RE: Applying patches - minimizing database down time

2001-02-09 Thread Steve Orr
ok at. A lot of work building, cutting over, and rebuilding, but > may result in minimum downtime. > > dgm > > - Original Message - > > > > Attention all installation gurus/hacks... > > > > > > > > I'm looking for suggestions, experiences, a

Fw: Applying patches - minimizing database down time

2001-02-09 Thread Dan Mills
Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:15 PM > Subject: RE: Applying patches - minimizing database down time > > > > Do you have a test instance to apply the patches to? Check

Re: Applying patches - minimizing database down time

2001-02-08 Thread Dan Mills
recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: RE: Applying patches - minimizing database down time > > > > Yeah, I like the theory but putting the theory into practice is another > > story. Maybe I'll try it another day. I thought Oracle supported 24X7 > > Internet ec

RE: Applying patches - minimizing database down time

2001-02-08 Thread Elliott, Patrick
, 2001 2:45 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Applying patches - minimizing database down time > > Yeah, I like the theory but putting the theory into practice is another > story. Maybe I'll try it another day. I thought Oracle supported 24X7 > Inter

RE: Applying patches - minimizing database down time

2001-02-08 Thread Steve Orr
educe database down time from 1 hour to 5 minutes. "Patches? We don't need no stinkin' patches!" L.E. Returning to Dog Patch, Lil' Abner -Original Message- Patrick Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You might consi

RE: Applying patches - minimizing database down time

2001-02-08 Thread Elliott, Patrick
logminer. > -Original Message- > From: Molina, Gerardo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:56 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Applying patches - minimizing database down time > > (Not a sales pitch) >

RE: Applying patches - minimizing database down time

2001-02-08 Thread Molina, Gerardo
gurus/hacks... I'm looking for suggestions, experiences, and best practices on safely applying Oracle patches and minimizing database down time. By way of example let's say we're going from server version 8.1.6.0.0 to 8.1.6.3.0. Let's also say we're going to apply the 8.1.

Applying patches - minimizing database down time

2001-02-08 Thread Steve Orr
Attention all installation gurus/hacks... I'm looking for suggestions, experiences, and best practices on safely applying Oracle patches and minimizing database down time. By way of example let's say we're going from server version 8.1.6.0.0 to 8.1.6.3.0. Let's also say we&#