ORA-01033

ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress Cause: An attempt was made to log on while Oracle is being started up or shutdown. Action: Wait a few minutes. Then retry the operation.

sde.log: % sdemon -o start Please enter ArcSDE DBA password: ------------------------------------------------------- ArcSDE 9.2 for Oracle10g Build 1206 Fri Oct 19 08:31:29 2007 ------------------------------------------------------- Reading /apps/sde/sdedb/etc/dbinit.sde: set ORACLE_HOME = /oracle/product/10.2.0.3se set ORACLE_SID = sdedb unset TWO_TASK DB_open_instance()::db_connect (OCI8) error: 1033 init_DB DB_instance_open_as_dba: -51 DBMS error code: 1033 ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress Could not start ArcSDE -- Check Network, $SDEHOME disk, DBMS settings and dbinit.sde.

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