I am running Oracle 10g on Fedora Core 3. I keep getting the same error/trace file generated whenever I shutdown the database. Has anybody seen this before and know how to fix it? OPIRIP: Uncaught error 1089. Error stack: ORA-01089: immediate shutdown in progress - no operations are permitted ORA-00448: normal completion of background process Oracle Database 10g Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0 System name: Linux Node name: tech.com Release: 2.6.9-1.667smp Version: #1 SMP Tue Nov 2 14:59:52 EST 2004 Machine: i686 Instance name: mdy01 Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1 Oracle process number: 29 Unix process pid: 22949, image: oracle@xxxxxxxx (J002) *** 2005-03-30 09:32:51.653 *** ACTION NAME:() 2005-03-30 09:32:51.653 *** MODULE NAME:() 2005-03-30 09:32:51.653 *** SERVICE NAME:(SYS$USERS) 2005-03-30 09:32:51.653 *** SESSION ID:(137.5353) 2005-03-30 09:32:51.653 OPIRIP: Uncaught error 1089. Error stack: ORA-01089: immediate shutdown in progress - no operations are permitted ORA-00448: normal completion of background process _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l