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    How to manually delete oracle background processes?

    Hello,

    I have more than 1 oracle 10g instance on the same server (solaris). I created an instance and a database via a shell script and later deleted it, also via a script (just to test my scripts) - I deleted all the datafiles, redologs, controlfiles, parameter files and some other directories for this database...I thought that deleting the parameter files would delete the instance completely, but when i issue the command "ps -ef | grep testdb", i still see the background processes running. I think this is causing problems when i try to create an instance and database with the same SID again via my script.

    So how can i manually (via a shell script, not via dbca) delete all the background processes of an instance?
    Thanks.

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    why didnt you shut it down before you deleted the files?

    anyway, kill the processes then use ipcs to see if any shared memory segments are left over

    you could also try

    export ORACLE_SID=testdb
    sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
    shutdown abort


    That might work

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    I did do a shutdown abort via my script before the deletion of files -this was the output of my script for the shutdown ...
    Code:
    SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> Connected to an idle instance.
    SQL> ORACLE instance shut down.
    SQL> Disconnected
    ...so i assume that the instance was shutdown before deletion (yes, i did export the correct ORACLE_SID first).

    Anyway, I tried this...
    export ORACLE_SID=testdb
    sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
    shutdown abort
    ...but I cant log in to sqlplus anymore. I get these errors....

    Code:
    oracle@server ~> export ORACLE_SID=testdb
    oracle@server ~> sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
    
    SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Feb 14 12:51:45 2006
    
    Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
    
    ERROR:
    ORA-09925: Unable to create audit trail file
    SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory
    Additional information: 9925
    ORA-01075: you are currently logged on
    
    
    Enter user-name: sys
    Enter password: 
    ERROR:
    ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress
    How do i kill the processes and then use ipcs (dont even know what that is)?

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    Using ipcs can get tricky if there is more than one instance on the machine I find. Have a read up on sysresv instead:

    https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/f?p=130:14:2218291498576502886:::14_database_id,p14_docid,p14_show_header,p14_show_help,p14_black_frame,p14_font:NOT,123322.1,1,1,1,h elvetica

    To kill the processes use kill -9 where pid is the PID column in the ps output.

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    I could not access the link because i do not have metalink (and didnt know the support identifier to register for it).
    But I found a solution using sysresv on another forum and tried that, as shown below...

    Code:
    oracle@server ~> export ORACLE_SID=testdb
    oracle@server ~> cd /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin/
    oracle@server /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin> sysresv 
    
    IPC Resources for ORACLE_SID "testdb" :
    Shared Memory:
    ID              KEY
    805306484       0xe9389910
    Semaphores:
    ID              KEY
    167772287       0xf09f4914
    Oracle Instance alive for sid "testdb"
    oracle@server /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin> ipcrm -m 805306484
    oracle@server /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin> ipcrm -s 167772287
    oracle@server /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin> sysresv
    
    IPC Resources for ORACLE_SID "testdb" :
    Shared Memory
    ID              KEY
    No shared memory segments used
    Semaphores:
    ID              KEY
    No semaphore resources used
    Oracle Instance not alive for sid "testdb"
    oracle@server /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin> cd
    oracle@server ~> ps -ef | grep testdb
      oracle  3326 23776   0 14:12:05 pts/1       0:00 grep testdb
    It looks like my instance has been completely deleted now, but how can i avoid doing this again after deleting my instance & database via a script (coz at the moment, even after a shutdown abort and then deleting all the necessary files, the background processes still remain)?

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    Quote Originally Posted by oraclechick
    It looks like my instance has been completely deleted now, but how can i avoid doing this again after deleting my instance & database via a script (coz at the moment, even after a shutdown abort and then deleting all the necessary files, the background processes still remain)?
    The fact that the background processes were still running indicates the database was not brought down. You may have thought you brought it down, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
    Jeff Hunter

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    This is the part of my script which does a shutdown....

    Code:
    orcl_sid=$1
    
    run_sql () 				
    {			
    sqlplus /NOLOG <
    
    Why doesnt this work, but yet shows in the output that the instance is shutdown?

    Code:
    SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> Connected to an idle instance.
    SQL> ORACLE instance shut down.
    SQL> Disconnected

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    oops...looks like something went wrong there...here is my script again...

    Code:
    run_sql () 				
    {			
    sqlplus /NOLOG <
    

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    dont know why that keeps happening...

    run_sql ()
    {
    sqlplus /NOLOG < set pagesize 0
    set linesize 1024
    set heading off
    set feedback off
    connect / as sysdba
    $1
    exit;
    EOF
    }

    # Shutdown database
    echo "shutdown database..."
    echo "`export ORACLE_SID=${orcl_sid}`"
    run_sql "shutdown abort;"
    echo "database shutdown"

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    something went wrong again....it should be ...

    sqlplus /nolog << EOF
    set pagesize 0
    .....

    NOT...
    sqlplus /nolog < set pagesize 0

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