This is part of the alert file of my standby server....There is no errors...

Wed Feb 02 02:12:20 2005
Alter Database Open Read Only
Wed Feb 02 02:12:20 2005
SMON: enabling cache recovery
Wed Feb 02 02:12:21 2005
Database Characterset is WE8ISO8859P1
replication_dependency_tracking turned off (no async multimaster replication found)
Wed Feb 02 02:12:23 2005
Starting background process MMON
MMON started with pid=13, OS id=1992
Wed Feb 02 02:12:23 2005
Starting background process MMNL
MMNL started with pid=14, OS id=2924
Wed Feb 02 02:12:23 2005
Physical standby database opened for read only

but still the sqlplus window hangs......

Looks like a bug....opened a TAR....