Shutdown immediate hangs

Question

SunOS 5.8
Database version: 9.2.0.4.0
Customer shutdown database every night for backup the datafiles to disk.
For your information, 2 weeks ago customer moved datafiles to a new disk.
The stoppscript has worked for a week.
And after a week the database will not shutdown.
We did a shutdown abort, and it works for a couple of days.
Now it happend again. The database will not go down.
Can't find any error messages!
Any suggestions?
# stoppscript
. $HOME/.profile
INSTANSER="BALA"
echo
echo "###########################################"
echo "# Startar nedtagning av O R A C L E #"
echo "###########################################"
echo
echo
echo "####### Stoppar LISTENER #######"
echo
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl << EOF
stop LISTENER
exit
EOF
for i in $INSTANSER
do
ORACLE_SID=$i
export ORACLE_SID
echo
echo "##### Stoppar instans - $ORACLE_SID #####"
echo
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus /nolog << EOF
connect / as sysdba
shutdown immediate
startup exclusive restrict
shutdown
exit
EOF
done
echo
echo "########################################"
echo "# Slut nedtagning av O R A C L E #"
echo "########################################"
echo
# Alert_log
Tue Sep 5 01:16:48 2006
Shutting down instance: further logons disabled
Shutting down instance (immediate)
License high water mark = 41
Waiting for dispatcher 'D000' to shutdown
All dispatchers and shared servers shutdown
Tue Sep 5 01:16:55 2006
ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Tue Sep 5 01:16:55 2006
SMON: disabling tx recovery
SMON: disabling cache recovery
Tue Sep 5 01:16:56 2006
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Tue Sep 5 01:16:56 2006
ARCH shutting down
ARC0: Archival stopped
Tue Sep 5 01:16:56 2006
ARCH shutting down
ARC1: Archival stopped
Tue Sep 5 01:16:56 2006
Thread 1 closed at log sequence 11287
Successful close of redo thread 1.
Tue Sep 5 01:16:56 2006
Completed: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Tue Sep 5 01:16:56 2006
ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
Completed: ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
ARCH: Archiving is disabled
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Archive process shutdown avoided: 0 active
Tue Sep 5 08:15:15 2006
Shutting down instance (abort)

Answer 1

I am having similar problem. My server has been up for around 100 days now. And I extensively use XML DB in my code. So, now the DOM memory failed for me, so, I am doing shutdown immediate in the hope that it might fix it ( or atleast start where it is hanging).
Here is a snippet of my alert log file. Can you see where I am stuck at?
Thu Sep 21 14:01:15 2006
Process m001 died, see its trace file
Thu Sep 21 14:01:15 2006
ksvcreate: Process(m001) creation failed
Thu Sep 21 14:28:38 2006
Starting background process EMN0
EMN0 started with pid=19, OS id=2396
Thu Sep 21 14:28:38 2006
Shutting down instance: further logons disabled
Thu Sep 21 14:28:40 2006
Stopping background process CJQ0
Thu Sep 21 14:28:40 2006
Stopping background process QMNC
Thu Sep 21 14:28:42 2006
Stopping background process MMNL
Thu Sep 21 14:28:43 2006
Stopping background process MMON
Thu Sep 21 14:28:45 2006
Shutting down instance (immediate)
License high water mark = 23
Thu Sep 21 14:28:45 2006
Stopping Job queue slave processes
Thu Sep 21 14:28:45 2006
Job queue slave processes stopped
All dispatchers and shared servers shutdown
Thu Sep 21 14:28:55 2006
ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Thu Sep 21 14:28:55 2006
SMON: disabling tx recovery
SMON: disabling cache recovery
Thu Sep 21 14:28:56 2006
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Archive process shutdown avoided: 0 active
Thread 1 closed at log sequence 411
Successful close of redo thread 1
Thu Sep 21 14:29:01 2006
Completed: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Thu Sep 21 14:29:01 2006
ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
Completed: ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
ARCH: Archival disabled due to shutdown: 1089
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Archive process shutdown avoided: 0 active
ARCH: Archival disabled due to shutdown: 1089
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Archive process shutdown avoided: 0 active
btw, This is my screen right now.
U:\Rahul\sql>sqlplus sys as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Sep 21 14:28:16 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
SQL> sho sga
Total System Global Area 436207616 bytes
Fixed Size 1249440 bytes
Variable Size 142610272 bytes
Database Buffers 289406976 bytes
Redo Buffers 2940928 bytes
SQL> shutdown immediate;
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
Ok, when I am writing this post, I came back with this message.
SQL> shutdown immediate;
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 436207616 bytes
Fixed Size 1249440 bytes
Variable Size 142610272 bytes
Database Buffers 289406976 bytes
Redo Buffers 2940928 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL>
Still, any comments would be really appreciated.
Thank you,
Rahul.
P.S - This is a 32 bit windows 2003 server. 10gR2.
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