How to resolve ORA-011033 ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

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When trying to connect to an ORACLE user via TOAD  Quest Software  or any other means  Oracle Enterprise Manager  I get this error      ORA-011033  ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

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Here is my solution to this issue   SQL gt  Startup mount ORA-01081  cannot start already-running ORACLE - shut it down first SQL gt  shutdown abort ORACLE instance shut down  SQL gt  SQL gt  startup mount ORACLE instance started   Total System Global Area 1904054272 bytes Fixed Size                  2404024 bytes Variable Size             570425672 bytes Database Buffers         1325400064 bytes Redo Buffers                5824512 bytes Database mounted  SQL gt  Show parameter control files  NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ control files                        string      C  APP USER ORADATA ORACLEDB C                                                  ONTROL01 CTL  C  APP USER FAST                                                   RECOVERY AREA ORACLEDB CONTRO                                                  L02 CTL SQL gt  select a member a group  b status from v logfile a  v log b where a group   b group  and b status  CURRENT    2 SQL gt  select a member a group  b status from v logfile a  v log b where a group   b group  and b status  CURRENT    MEMBER --------------------------------------------------------------------------------      GROUP  STATUS ---------- ---------------- C  APP USER ORADATA ORACLEDB REDO03 LOG          3 CURRENT   SQL gt  shutdown abort ORACLE instance shut down  SQL gt  startup mount ORACLE instance started   Total System Global Area 1904054272 bytes Fixed Size                  2404024 bytes Variable Size             570425672 bytes Database Buffers         1325400064 bytes Redo Buffers                5824512 bytes Database mounted  SQL gt  recover database using backup controlfile until cancel  ORA-00279  change 4234808 generated at 01 21 2014 18 31 05 needed for thread 1 ORA-00289  suggestion   C  APP USER FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLEDB ARCHIVELOG 2014 01 22 O1 MF 1 108  U  AR  C ORA-00280  change 4234808 for thread 1 is in sequence  108   Specify log    lt RET gt  suggested   filename   AUTO   CANCEL  C  APP USER ORADATA ORACLEDB REDO03 LOG Log applied  Media recovery complete  SQL gt  alter database open resetlogs   Database altered    And it worked

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This error can also occur in the normal situation when a database is starting or stopping  Normally on startup you can wait until the startup completes  then connect as usual  If the error persists  the service  on a Windows box  may be started without the database being started  This may be due to startup issues  or because the service is not configured to automatically start the database  In this case you will have to connect as sysdba and physically start the database using the  startup  command

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I hope this will help somebody  I solved the problem like this  There was a problem because the database was not open  Command startup opens the database   This you can solve with command alter database open  in some case with  alter database open resetlogs    sqlplus   sysdba  SQL gt  startup ORACLE instance started   Total System Global Area 1073741824 bytes Fixed Size          8628936 bytes Variable Size         624952632 bytes Database Buffers      436207616 bytes Redo Buffers            3952640 bytes Database mounted  Database opened   SQL gt  conn user pass123 Connected

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The issue can also be due to lack of hard drive space  The installation will succeed but on startup  oracle won t be able to create the required files and will fail with the same above error message

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I used a combination of the answers from rohancragg  Mukul Goel  and NullSoulException from above  However I had an additional error    ORA-01157  cannot identify lock data file string - see DBWR trace file  To which I found the answer here  http   nimishgarg blogspot com 2014 01 ora-01157-cannot-identifylock-data-file html  Incase the above post gets deleted I am including the commands here as well   C   gt sqlplus sys sys as sysdba SQL Plus  Release 11 2 0 3 0 Production on Tue Apr 30 19 07 16 2013 Copyright  c  1982  2011  Oracle   All rights reserved  Connected to an idle instance   SQL gt  startup ORACLE instance started  Total System Global Area  778387456 bytes Fixed Size                  1384856 bytes Variable Size             520097384 bytes Database Buffers          251658240 bytes Redo Buffers                5246976 bytes Database mounted  ORA-01157  cannot identify lock data file 11     see DBWR trace file ORA-01110  data file 16   E  oracle app nimish garg oradata orcl test ts dbf   SQL gt  select NAME from v datafile where file  16  NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E  ORACLE APP NIMISH GARG ORADATA ORCL TEST TS DBF  SQL gt  alter database datafile 16 OFFLINE DROP  Database altered   SQL gt  alter database open  Database altered    Thanks everyone you saved my day   Fissh

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I faced the same problem  I restarted the oracle service for that DB instance and the error is gone

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After some googling  I found the advice to do the following  and it worked   SQL gt  startup mount  ORACLE Instance started  SQL gt  recover database   Media recovery complete  SQL gt  alter database open   Database altered

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I had a similar problem when I had installed the 12c database as per Oracle s tutorial   The instruction instructs reader to create a PLUGGABLE DATABASE  pdb     The problem  sqlplus hr hr pdborcl would result in ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress   The solution    Login as SYSDBA to the dabase      sqlplus SYS Oracle 1 pdborcl AS SYSDBA    Alter database    alter pluggable database pdborcl open read write     Login again    sqlplus hr hr pdborcl     That worked for me  Some documentation here

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What worked for me is that i hadn t set the local listener  to see if the local listener is set login to sqlplus   as sysdba  make sure the database is open and run the following command show parameter local listener  if the value is empty   then you will have to set the local listener with the following SQL command ALTER SYSTEM SET LOCAL LISTENER   lt LISTENER NAME GOES HERE gt

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