Just want to thank all those who replied with suggestions thus far. I am in the process of trying some of the suggestions starting with generating "a log of activity" during reboot to determine where the problem exists. I hope to have an update soon. Thanks again. Mike On Jan 9, 2008 11:34 AM, <krish.hariharan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mike, > > > > Your best bet is to generate a log of activity during init 6, with a debug > (set -x) to verify that ORACLE_HOME is being set since you are invoking > oraenv with ORACLE_SID="" and ORAENV_ASK=NO. > > > > Regards > > -Krish >