Interrupting Flashback Database

So a user called me up and said he was flashing back a database and he was not too happy with the amount of time it was taking to complete the operation and so he did a Ctrl-C...

When he tried to open the database this is what he saw..

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SQL> shutdown abort
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 838860800 bytes
Fixed Size 2033832 bytes
Variable Size 520099672 bytes
Database Buffers 310378496 bytes
Redo Buffers 6348800 bytes
Database mounted.
ORA-38760: This database instance failed to turn on flashback database


SQL> alter database flashback off;

Database altered.

SQL> alter database open;
alter database open
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-38760: This database instance failed to turn on flashback database

===>... Well he just turned off flashback..

SQL> alter database open resetlogs;
alter database open resetlogs
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01139: RESETLOGS option only valid after an incomplete database recovery

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Looking through the alert.log

Fri Sep 18 08:35:05 2009
flashback database to restore point TEST_AFTER
Fri Sep 18 08:35:05 2009
ORA-38757 signalled during: flashback database to restore point TEST_AFTER...
Fri Sep 18 12:00:48 2009

No errors in the RVWR process trace file

So I just dropped the restore point and voila

> drop restore point TEST_AFTER;

Restore point dropped.

> select flashback_on from v$database;

FLASHBACK_ON
------------------
NO

> alter database open;

Database altered.