I've seen this when shared memory gets hung. Check with you local ipc handlers, such as: ipcs -cm On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:09:26AM -0800, Mark John wrote: > Hi > I know this should be fairly simple but I dont seem to get this working. > We have all the OS files (control,data, allologs and ini files). but we had > to reinstall the OS on the machine. Nothing crashed so the data in the OS > files is in tact. So how do I recreate the database from the OS files. > I tried using ORADIM created a instance and then started but when I login > it says initialisation or shutdown in progress..what am I doing wrong? > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l