was this database an upgrade? and if so, was it upgraded "in place"? i've seen this happen on that before. On Dec 18, 2007 10:46 AM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We are running into something strange. We have queries on the data > dictionary hanging, while other queries appear to run correctly. We are in > Oracle 10gR2 on AIX. It appears that Patrol is doing something that manages > to hang itself and any other query or update on the data dictionary, such as > statspack snapshots and statistics jobs. We end up having to kill patrol > and the other jobs to get things working again. Has anyone else seen this > or have an idea what is going on? > > -- > Andrew W. Kerber > > 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' -- -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA shrekdba@xxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "He's one who knows that life is just a leap of faith, so spread your arms and hold your breath and always trust your cape." -- "The Cape" -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l