Again, this is more of an academic question - we have already filed all the forms and dotted all the i's to bounce the database - in my opinion, that is besides the point. I tried the wakeup, but it did not seem to do much. Interesting that MMON was in v$bgprocess, though. Error = 448 2011/6/9 Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Ah, that actually makes sense. It does seem an odd state to be in. > > Honestly, if it was me, I'd take my lumps, get approved to do a 'startup > force' (likely the quickest way to complete bounce) and be comfortable that > there are no lurking surprises....:-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Thomas A. La Porte > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 6:01 PM > To: ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: anyway to restart mmon after database shutdown is cancelled? > > I inferred from Charles' original message that they the shutdown > of the database was inadvertent, and that they had managed to > cancel it before the shutdown had actually completed. The > database was still "up" (at least from the user's perspective) > and he was now looking for a way that he might salvage it without > any downtime to the end users. > > -- Tom > > On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Bobak, Mark wrote: > > [...] > > Finally, I’m not sure why folks are so cautious of shutdown > >abort and/or startup force. It should be perfectly safe to do > >so. > > > > -Mark > [...] > > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Schultz > > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:30 PM > > To: ORACLE-L > > Subject: anyway to restart mmon after database shutdown is cancelled? > > > > We had a dba boo-boo today; and now I have a curious issue on > >my hands. MMON and several other background processes are down, > >but the instance seems to have other recovered after an errant > >shutdown command was cancelled. So far Google has not shown me > >anything helpful. Wondering if there any tricks out there. > > > > Oracle Enterprise Edition, 11.1.0.7.7 > > Sun Solaris 10 > > > > -- > > Charles Schultz > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Charles Schultz