ORA-01090: shutdown in progress – connection is not permitted and ORA-24324: service handle not initialized

Mehmet Salih Deveci

5 years ago

Hi,

Sometimes you can get ” ORA-01090: shutdown in progress – connection is not permitted ” error.

Details of error are as follows.

ORA-01090: shutdown in progress - connection is not permitted

Cause: The SHUTDOWN command was used to shut down a running ORACLE instance, so you cannot connect to ORACLE.

Action: Wait for the instance to be restarted, or contact your DBA.

SQL> shutdown immediate;
ORA-24324: service handle not initialized
ORA-24323: value not allowed
ORA-01090: shutdown in progress - connection is not permitted

This errors means Oracle Instance is hang and shutdown process was still in progress, so run shutdown abort command, then start it up again.

Check the Oracle SID and Oracle Home, if they are Ok or not ?

[oracle@MSDBdbadm01:/home/oracle:> ORACLE_SID=INSTANCE_NAME

[oracle@MSDBdbadm01:/home/oracle:> export ORACLE_SID

[oracle@MSDBdbadm01:/home/oracle:> export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/product/12.2.0/dbhome_1

[oracle@MSDBdbadm01:/home/oracle:> sqlplus / as sysdba

shutdown abort the Instance then start it up again as follows.

SQL> shutdown abort
SQL> startup

You can also kill the SMON or PMON process with kill -9 command as follows.

[MSDB1]/home/oracle $ ps -ef | grep smon
root     258120      1  3 Mar25 ?        15:46:32 /u01/grid/bin/osysmond.bin
grid     260699      1  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:30 asm_smon_+ASM1
oracle   291921      1  0 Mar28 ?        00:25:55 ora_smon_MSDB1
oracle   398955 215557  0 17:44 pts/5    00:00:00 grep smon
[MSDB1]/home/oracle $ 
[MSDB1]/home/oracle $ kill -9 291921
[MSDB1]/home/oracle $

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