Thanks Rafiq for your imemdiate response. This forum is always helpful. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of M Rafiq Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 4:13 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: select * from DBA_BLOCKERS is haging forever; V 8.1.7.3; Sun OS You have to run $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catblock.ora of your latest version of Oracle 8.1.7.x. It is a known issue. I opened a tar 4/5 months back for same issue and they told me this solution and it worked. Right now you have to kill this hanging session. Regards Rafiq From: Jay <jaysingh1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: select * from DBA_BLOCKERS is haging forever; V 8.1.7.3; Sun OS Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:07:19 -0500 Dear All, Any idea why "select * from DBA_BLOCKERS;" is haging forever. Thanks Jay ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Find and compare great deals on Broadband access at the MSN High-Speed Marketplace. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200360ave/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------