Few more facts: 1) The oracle version is 10.2.0.1 2) The machine is up for 87 days. [Tao:Not sure if the bug applies here or no] 3) The Alert file was last updated on Apr. 11. And the last messages were normal logswitches and other stuff. Nothing very alarming 4) I dont think the audit was ever turned on. 5) There is plenty of space (in GBs) available in filesystems particularly ORACLE_HOME 6) changePerm.sh is already run. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Johnson, William L (TEIS) < WLJohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On the same lines…are you auditing and filled the audit tablespace? > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Rajeev Prabhakar > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:57 AM > *To:* saad4u@xxxxxxxxx > *Cc:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Re: Oracle 10g hangs ...earlier running smoothly > > > > Hello Saad, > > If the adjusting permissions is not very helpful, could you check if the > free space > on the filesystem is not the issue. I vaguely remember having encountered > this (low > space on either home directory of the oracle id, ORACLE_HOME directory OR > dest > directories for udump/bdump) a while back and preventing sqlplus > connections. Does > the alert log show anything ? > > -Rajeev > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Saad Khan <saad4u@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Good Morning fellows, > > Thanks. > > Sid > > >