On 05/23/2006 03:37:53 PM, Bobak, Mark wrote: > I'm seeing lots of waits for it in a 9.2.0.6 instance on Solaris.... > > It does not appear to be in the 9iR2 Reference manual...? > > Now, I can't even log in....not even as "/ as sysdba".....sigh..... > It's library cache instance lock. "O" is the namespace. Try killing processes manually, using something like ps -ef|grep "ora_"|awk '{ print $2; }'|xargs kill -9 On a Solaris system you can do something like "pkill -9 ora_" and then removing SGA by iprm. That would be the equivalent of "shutdown abort". -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mgogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l