Lock the account before killing it so that it can't reconnect. Also if session is in the middle of long transaction it might take a while to roll it back so wait a bit. 2006/4/21, Mathias Diehl <md@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi List, > > may I ask again for your support. > > I try to run automatic installer but fail with the message but can't drop the > user: > > > drop user OPENCMS cascade; > > -->"cannot drop a user that is currently connected" > > Now I googled and found: > > select username, sid, serial# from v$session where lower(username)='OPENCMS'; > > What brought: > > USERNAME SID SERIAL# > ------------------------------ ---------- ---------- > OPENCMS 143 148 > OPENCMS 144 623 > OPENCMS 145 19 > OPENCMS 147 378 > OPENCMS 148 609 > OPENCMS 158 764 > > > > > alter system kill session '143, 148'; > > seem's to have no effect as the error persists.... any idea how to solve that > issue? > > Thanx in advance > > Mat > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Best regards, Alex Gorbachev -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l