It's waiting on the child forked, you can see them with the -f option of
truss.
Is this ever worked or it's a new setup?
Only one node's Oracle Intelligent Agent is used to communicate to SRVCTL,
so SRVCTL on that node then communicates to the other nodes through Java
RMI.
What is the output from srvctl config database -d pidv?
HTH Dimitre
$ ps -ef|grep -i srvctl oracle 9584 7154 0 18:27:44 pts/8 0:00 grep -i srvctl oracle 6953 2554 0 18:22:39 pts/7 0:00 /bin/sh /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/srvctl status database -d pidv
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