Hi all, I have an application throwing the following error :ORA-01591: lock held by in-doubt distributed transaction I checked DBA_2PC_PENDING and dba_2pc_neighbors and found 2 transaction in PENDING state. I wasn't sure how to deal with these, so googled. I found a site that causiously prescibed deleting as follows: SQL> select state, local_tran_id from dba_2pc_pending; STATE LOCAL_TRAN_ID ---------------- ---------------------- prepared 10.15.4693 prepared 4.18.4935 SQL> delete from dba_2pc_pending where local_tran_id='10.15.4693'; 1 row deleted. SQL> delete from pending_sessions$ where local_tran_id='10.15.4693'; 1 row deleted. SQL> delete from pending_sub_sessions$ where local_tran_id='10.15.4693'; 0 rows deleted. commit; I did not set transaction use SYSTEM before making the deletes ignore the error that the operation was illigal in managed undo mode. I though I could get away with an error as this is a test database. But I do not want to bounce it as this affects too many people. I would like to clear up what I now think was a mistake... I think I should have done a COMMIT|ROLLBACK force '10.15.4693'; first. I think I need to SET TRANSACTION USE ROLLBACK SEGMENT SYSTEM; to run any of the tidy up commands I've found, but I can't as I'm using Automatic Undo mode. Anyone know how I can fix this problem... oh yes the applcaition still fails with the origonal error including origonal trans id, but DBA_2PC_PENDING and dba_2pc_neighbors show no rows. Help appreciated, Cheers Tony -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l