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Fixed ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

Posted by Anil Kumar on November 18, 2013 All Posts, Database, Oracle DBA 12
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When you login into Oracle Database and it throws following error message:

ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

Then follow the below mentioned steps to solve this issue.

Ora-011033 Oracle error

As a DBA, you must know that Shutdown, Shutdown Immediate or Startup commands that
are issued by database administrator with SYSDBA privileges.

If your database shutdown is in progress then wait for some time until the database
is shutdown and start your database with Startup command.

C:\>sqlplus system/system

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Tue Nov 18 12:21:40 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.

ERROR:

ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

Process ID: 0

Session ID: 0 Serial number: 0

To check the status of instance and database, login with SYSDBA privileges and
follow the steps.

C:\>sqlplus

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Tue Nov 18 12:22:30 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Enter user-name: / as sysdba

Connected to:

Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production

SQL> select status, database_status from v$instance;

STATUS DATABASE_STATUS

------------ -----------------
 STARTED ACTIVE

SQL> select open_mode from v$database;

select open_mode from v$database

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-01507: database not mounted

Here we can see the instance is started but database is not mounted.

Now mount the database, if this succeeds then there is no problem.

SQL> alter database mount;

Database altered.

SQL> select status, database_status from v$instance;

STATUS DATABASE_STATUS

------------ -----------------

MOUNTED ACTIVE

SQL> select open_mode from v$database;

OPEN_MODE

----------

MOUNTED

Database is mounted successfully but when you try to connect, you still get the
same ORA-01033 error:

SQL> exit

Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0

Production

C:\>sqlplus system/system

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Tue Nov 18 12:25:55 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.

ERROR:

ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress

Process ID: 0

Session ID: 0 Serial number: 0

When you open the database, you must ensure that database is opened in read write
mode. Open your database with SYSDBA privileges and open the database.

Enter user-name: / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Tue Nov 19 12:25:55 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to:

Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production

SQL> alter database open;

Database altered.

SQL> select status, database_status from v$instance;

STATUS DATABASE_STATUS

------------ -----------------

OPEN ACTIVE

SQL> select open_mode from v$database;

OPEN_MODE

----------

READ WRITE

Now the database is opened in read write mode and your database is up. You can
login with your user and can use your database.