I found two trace files with the same time stamp on them. These are the closest to when I saw the problem. Could this have "hung" since the database bounced? -- Magnus Andersen Systems Administrator / Oracle DBA Walker & Associates, Inc. Trace file information... Dump file /opt/oracle/ora92/rdbms/log /prd/bdump/prd_j000_9659.trc Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle/ora92 System name: Linux Node name: oraprd.walkerassoc.com <http://oraprd.walkerassoc.com/> Release: 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp Version: #1 SMP Tue May 17 17:52:23 EDT 2005 Machine: i686 Instance name: prd Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1 Oracle process number: 28 Unix process pid: 9659, image: oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J000) *** 2005-10-22 00:38:58.415 *** SESSION ID:(27.52095) 2005-10-22 00:38:58.391 OPIRIP: Uncaught error 1089. Error stack: ORA-01089: immediate shutdown in progress - no operations are permitted ORA-00448: normal completion of background process