Hi Pedro,

My guess is, when you did "connect / as sysdba", the process table was
already filled, and you actually failed to connect.

Then, when you tried to shutdown abort, you got ORA-1031 cause you
weren't actually connected.

It's interesting to note that if you connect as sysdba, and the
connection is successful, you see something like:
"Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit
Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options"

Of course, this will vary, based on the version of Oracle you're
running.

If you fail to connect, cause process table is full, you'll get:
"Connected."

Which is a just a *bit* counterintuitive....but that's what happens.

So, "Connected." means you *failed* to connect!


Hope that helps,

-Mark


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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@(protected)
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@(protected)
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:09 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: ora-01031

One of our production users complained that he couldn't connect to the
database. I looked into the listener.log and found the following.

Environment: 10.2.0.2 single instance on solaris sparc 64, 5.8


30-MAY-2007 14:33:31 *
(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=XYZ)(CID=(PROGRAM=)(HOST=__jdbc__)(USER=))) *
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=165.63.19.68)(PORT=56635)) * establish *
TMAN * 12518
TNS-12518: TNS:listener could not hand off client connection
TNS-12547: TNS:lost contact
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
 TNS-00517: Lost contact
  Solaris Error: 32: Broken pipe


Note 340089.1 suggests to increase the processes.


I, then, connected to the db using "connect '/as sydba'"

XYZ>show parameter process
ORA-01012: not logged on

I have checked whether oracle processes exist. I did ps -aef | grep XYZ,
and found that all processes were running.

I exit from this session, and then connected '/as sysdba' from local
box, so there is no business of orapw,e tc). When I tried to shutdown
immediate, I got the following:

XYZ> shutdown immediate;

ORA-24324: service handle not initialized
ORA-24323: value not allowed
ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (%s) exceeded

Then, I tried

XYZ> shutdown abort;
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
XYZ> exit
Disconnected

Next, I connected again. This time, the database allowed me to shutdown
abort.

My doubt is: why I got ORA-1031errors, even though I tried to shutdown
as oracle user with group dba.



Thanks, Pedro.
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