Can't stop a job

Question

Hello,
The job "refreshfrommetalink" is running since 4 days and I can't stop it through the manager.
When I click on "Stop" the job is flagged "Stop pending", but it dones not stop.
On other screens it is still flagged "Running".
How can I stop it ?
Version 10.0.1.2
Regards

Answer 1

I have had some success with finding the offending session and killing it, then killing the offending OS process.
Since we are using RAC (on RHEL), and the session is known to be running under a job class, which runs under a service, we find the offending session by:
select sid, serial#, status from gv$session where service_name = 'BACKUPS';
SID SERIAL# STATUS
3185 4664 ACTIVE
Then issue: ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION '3185, 4664' IMMEDIATE;
SID SERIAL# STATUS
3185 4664 KILLED
Now, find the OS process associated with that SID (assuming you are using UNIX):
select s.username, s.status, s.sid oracle_sid, s.process unix_pid, s.serial#, p.spid, s.machine, s.lockwait
     from v$session s, v$process p
     where s.sid = '&oracle_sid'
     and s.paddr = p.addr
Enter value for oracle_sid: 3185
USERNAME STATUS ORACLE_SID UNIX_PID
APP_SERVER INACTIVE 3185 1234
Then, leave sqlplus, and kill the offending OS process using a command prompt on the server:
kill -9 1234
After this, the job can be disabled/modified/dropped