On 05/04/2013 12:57 PM, John Hurley wrote: > Similarly I always rip out all the oracle restart functionality. A really > really bad idea to try to startup anything automagically after a server > reboot at least in my opinion. > > Well then you patch and you have to disable oracle restart again each time > ... like a zombie it tries to live again! > ... and again, and again Had that happen in my class this week - we had the students destroy the active redo log group, then bring up the DB in MOUNT to recreate the redo logs. However, for 1/2 the class Oracle Restart kept attempting to restart and causing the students to hit 3113s (effectively a race condition) just connecting as sysdba, never mind trying to startup (even nomount). Disabling Restart did the trick. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l