Originally posted by akimtiaz

Dear friends!
My oracle (8.1.7.7) is running on solaris 7 and also on Win-2000 When I am shutting down database In Normal mode it is not working only shutdown Abort is working.Please suggest me to how can I solve the problem
Thanks
What happens after SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE.

P.S. I assume you mean 8.1.7.2, not 8.1.7.7 :-)