No idea Scot. I just ran the same set of commands against one of my test databases and the TAF service stopped and removed cleanly. Can you do a stop of each individual instances service ? Then do the remove ? Maybe for some reason its not recognizing both going down when you stop just the database versus the individual instances . ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Stefick Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 1:30 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Oracle TAF service issues Can anyone help me out here? I cannot find anything online, nor have I've ever seen this before.. RHEL 5 64-Bit Oracle 10.2.0.5 2 Node RAC I'm trying to remove and re add the TAF service on my database names ICRONUS. Check this out: ----------------------- $ srvctl status service -d ICRONUS -s ICRONUS_TAF Service ICRONUS_TAF is not running. $ srvctl remove service -d ICRONUS -s ICRONUS_TAF ICRONUS_TAF PREF: ICRONUS1 ICRONUS2 AVAIL: Remove service ICRONUS_TAF from the database ICRONUS? (y/[n]) y PRKP-1024 : The service ICRONUS_TAF is still running. $ srvctl stop service -d ICRONUS -s ICRONUS_TAF PRKP-1063 : Service ICRONUS_TAF is already stopped. $ srvctl remove service -d ICRONUS -s ICRONUS_TAF ICRONUS_TAF PREF: ICRONUS1 ICRONUS2 AVAIL: Remove service ICRONUS_TAF from the database ICRONUS? (y/[n]) y PRKP-1024 : The service ICRONUS_TAF is still running. $ srvctl status service -d ICRONUS -s ICRONUS_TAF Service ICRONUS_TAF is not running. Here is what I see in crs_stat -u NAME=ora.ICRONUS.ICRONUS1.inst TYPE=application TARGET=ONLINE STATE=ONLINE on icdbr016 NAME=ora.ICRONUS.ICRONUS2.inst TYPE=application TARGET=ONLINE STATE=ONLINE on icdbr017 NAME=ora.ICRONUS.ICRONUS_TAF.ICRONUS1.srv TYPE=application TARGET=ONLINE STATE=OFFLINE NAME=ora.ICRONUS.ICRONUS_TAF.ICRONUS2.srv TYPE=application TARGET=ONLINE STATE=OFFLINE NAME=ora.ICRONUS.ICRONUS_TAF.cs TYPE=application TARGET=ONLINE STATE=OFFLINE NAME=ora.ICRONUS.db TYPE=application TARGET=ONLINE STATE=ONLINE on icdbr016 This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately.