Shutdown hangs after drop column

Hi,
We were trying to drop column on a very big table, after that we cancelled that operation, and given shutdown immediate command.
Now shutdown is taking too much time, going on from last 9 hours.....
We want to start the database, what can be the best possible solution.
Shutdown abort and startup will help ?
Thanks
Dilipkumar Patel.

We were trying to drop column on a very big table, after that we cancelled that operation, and given shutdown immediate command.I guess SMON was doing rollback the transaction when you cancelled the operation. Since it was a big table, it was taking lot of time.
Can you check the alter log is there any error or info msg in it?
I am afraid if you give shutdown abort, may cause serious issues.
Before you execute 'shutdown abort', make sure you have good backup, in case of recovery.
Jaffar

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