hello,

i'm running oracle 8.0.5 on solaris 7.

i had previously tried shutting down oracle with
the svrmgrl command, issuing the "shutdown" command,
which halted after "Alter database dismount..."

after waiting several 10's of minutes, i issued a "shutdown
abort" via another svrmgrl session.

Now, when I try to "startup", it hangs after saying:

"Redo Buffers 81920 bytes"

there are no error messages via the terminal, or the
"alert... .log" file. Indeed, the alert.log file stops
with "alter database mount".

It hangs at this point indefinitely, and the only way I can
get out of it is to issue another "shutdown abort" from another
svrmgrl session.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

thanks in advance,
-tim