Hi there, for all of you suffering from bug 8740030 where an "OHASD stop" isn't executed during system restart when using Oracle Restart there are good news. When not stopping a database resource manually before a server reboot smon had to perform instance recovery. On closer inspection we found that no shutdown operation was performed for a database resource. Oracle released patch 8740030 for Linux x86-64 today which should hopefully fix the problem. Otherwise 11.2.0.2 will include the patch. Hope that helps, I haven't tested it but will do later. Regards, Martin -- Martin Bach OCM 10g http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/martincarstenbach -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l