How to fix the Oracle error ORA-10997: another startup/shutdown operation of this instance inprogress?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-10997: another startup/shutdown operation of this instance inprogress with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-10997: another startup/shutdown operation of this instance inprogress

Reason for the Error ORA-10997: another startup/shutdown operation of this instance inprogress

An Oracle Instance startup or shutdown operation failed to procure the serialization primitive. Another foreground process may have attempted startup or shutdown operation in parallel.

How to fix the Error ORA-10997: another startup/shutdown operation of this instance inprogress ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Check additional error messages in the alert log and the process trace file.