Re: RMAN backup fails - unable to open file

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jslowik@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:32:02 -0700

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Joel Slowik <jslowik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The only locks in process explorer were oracle, so we shut down the
> database and started it back up and that did not solve the issue. We then
> shut down the instance of the database and restarted the instance and that
> helped; we now have no issues writing data to the data files.
>
> What could be going on here?
>
>
Antivirus comes to mind.

Closing the instance may have been a coincidence.

As  instance was restarted before determining what the lock were, there's
nothing to do but guess.

Being on windows complicates matters.

You should considering finding a good utility that shows all locks on a
file.

Jared


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