We have been running Oracle 8.1.6 unchanged for several years. Within the past 3 days, our cold backup scripts have had a shutdown immediate hang. In the alert log the message is: Shutting down instance (immediate) Sun Mar 23 00:09:10 2003 SHUTDOWN: waiting for active calls to complete. Normally the message is: Sun Mar 16 00:04:06 2003 Shutting down instance (immediate) Sun Mar 16 00:05:11 2003 ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL Our immediate suspicion is that someone has implemented an application this last week that connects to the database in a more active manner than we've experienced before. Does anyone have any idea what I should look for (aside from asking each developer: "What did you do last week?". Since 3 systems have been affected, we are wondering if a process using a database link could cause a problem like this. Any ideas appreciated.
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