Did you do any mucking about in the registry regarding
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WaitToKillServiceTimeout
The default value is only 20 seconds (20000), which was likely fine for
a 7.3.4 database using say 128 MB of physical memory and perhaps a
single job queue process.
A 10g R1 database instance using say 1.7 GB of physical memory may take
quite awhile to shutdown cleanly from a shutdown immediate. Perhaps the
following would help:
oradim -edit -sid mydb -shutmode a
or if you don't want to go the route of shutdown abort when the serivce
is stopped:
oradim -edit -sid mydb -timeout 600
This won't help in the case of a hard shutdown (power-off by BOFH, ups
runs out of juice, etc).
It also won't help with your current symptoms.
The re-create the serivce and apply the latest patchset are probably the
first 2 lines off of their script for this issue.
What credentials is the OS service running under? (localsystem, service
account with membership in the local OS ORA_DBA group, service account
with membership in the local OS ORA_MYDB_DBA group, etc)
Paul
