On 03.08.2011 20:30, Scott Stefick wrote: > Can anyone help me out here? I cannot find anything online, nor have I've > ever seen this before.. > sounds familar. on the cluster side the service is not running but on the database side it is. you might check that in v$service. i solved it by stopping the service in the database with dbms_service.stop_service. after stopping the service in the database you should be able to remove the service from the cluster. -ap -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l