title: oracle initialization or shutdown in progress error
body: <p>While I am trying to connect to my Oracle 11g DB, I am getting error "ORA-01033: oracle initialization or shutdown in progress error". To resolve this I am following following steps:</p>
  
  <p>SQL> connect / as sysdba</p>
  
  <p>SQL> shutdown abort</p>
  
  <p>SQL> startup nomount</p>
  
  <p>SQL> alter database mount;</p>
  
  <p>SQL> alter database open;</p>
  
  <p>But when I am executing "alter database open" command, I am getting another error - ORA-00333: redo log read error block 15472 count 3189. </p>
  
  <p>I found out that we can resetlogs to fix this so I tried 
  ALTER DATABASE OPEN RESETLOGS; -- it gives an error that we can use RESETLOGS only after incomplete database recovery. </p>
  
  <p>I am seeking help to resolve this issue and to find out where I am going wrong.</p>