Database Unable to Start and Background Process Are Not Killed (Doc ID 1344942.1)

Last updated on MAY 01, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.3 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 01-Sep-2017***

Symptoms

Database is unable to start, and background processes as below are not getting killed.

$ ps -ef |grep <SID>

ora10203 4975 4043 1 12:11:27 pts/3 0:00 grep <SID>
ora10203 6589    1 0 Jul 21 ?     0:55 ora_dbw1_<SID>
ora10203 6591    1 0   Jul 21 ? 0:55 ora_dbw2_<SID>
ora10203 6587    1 0   Jul 21 ? 0:55 ora_dbw0_<SID>
ora10203 20132    1 0   Jul 27 ? 0:01 ora_m000_<SID>
ora10203 6595    1 0   Jul 21 ? 0:53 ora_dbw4_<SID>
ora10203 6593    1 0   Jul 21 ? 0:54 ora_dbw3_<SID>
ora10203 6601    1 0   Jul 21 ? 0:55 ora_dbw7_<SID>
ora10203 6599    1 0   Jul 21 ? 0:53 ora_dbw6_<SID>
ora10203 6605    1 0   Jul 21 ? 8:17 ora_ckpt_<SID>
ora10203 6597    1 0 Jul 21 ?     0:53 ora_dbw5_<SID>

Cause

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Database Unable to Start and Background Process Are Not Killed (Doc ID 1344942.1)

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