sculkget: failed to lock
630604Mar 26 2008 — edited Mar 27 2008Running 10.2.0.3 and having problems stop and starting the instance.
SQL> startup
ORA-10997: another startup/shutdown operation of this instance inprogress
ORA-09968: unable to lock file
IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 13: Permission denied
SQL>
The alert log records:
Wed Mar 26 15:10:20 2008
sculkget: failed to lock /proj/apps/10.2.0.3/dbs/lkinstsam61023 exclusive
Wed Mar 26 15:10:20 2008
sculkget: lock held by PID: 0
Wed Mar 26 15:10:20 2008
Oracle Instance Startup operation failed. Another process may be attempting to Startup or shutdown this Instance.
Wed Mar 26 15:10:20 2008
Failed to acquire instance startup/shutdown serialization primitive
There is no process with PID = 0;
There are no other session accessing this instance.
There is now file /proj/apps/10.2.0.3/dbs/lkinstsam61023.
Interestingly though if I run a
touch /proj/apps/10.2.0.3/dbs/lkinstsam61023 then the startup will succeed and the file is removed.
However if I then try to run shutdown I get the same error babling about that file and I have to touch (create) the file again before shutdown will succeed.
Anyone else seen anything like this or know what maybe going wrong?
Thanks
Mark