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Oracle: How to cancel a pending 'shutdown immediate'
Problem:
Idle clients are preventing 'shutdown immediate' from actually shutting doen the instance. Issuing another command like 'shutdown abort' fails with a string of error messages: ORA-24324: service handle not initialized ORA-24323: value not allowed ORA-01089: immediate shutdown in progress - no operations are permitted
 
Solution:
Although you cannot cancel the shutdown per se, you can restart the instance by connecting as sysdba and issuing the following command:
'startup force'

From the shutdown pending state, this actually causes the instance to 'shutdown abort' and then start up, minimizing downtime.
 
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