Guys,

I was running a query and got the following error
end of communication channel !!

I did the following to recover my DB:(linux)
1/renamed all my instance folders and re installed and removed the new ctl and dbf files from the new folders and copied the old ones to the new folder.In the past i did this it worked fine

I got the follwing messages this time after i started the DB

SVRMGR> alter database recover until cancel;
alter database recover until cancel
*
ORA-00279: change 1722310635758 generated at 11/16/02 14:20:29 needed for thread
1
ORA-00289: suggestion : /u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/dbs/arch1_65536.dbf
ORA-00280: change 1722310635758 for thread 1 is in sequence #65536
SVRMGR> alter database open resetlogs;
alter database open resetlogs
*
ORA-01153: an incompatible media recovery is active
SVRMGR> quit
Server Manager complete.


any advise!!Any little help also much appreciated!!!

Thank you