ORA-00245: control file backup failed; target is likely on a local file system

Your RMAN backup command may fail with ORA-00245 while backing up current control file as part of database backup. RMAN output along with the error message may look similar to the following. The highlighted in red is the actual cause of this error which I will explain later in this article and provide the solution for this.

ORA-17503 ORA-27140 ORA-27300 ORA-27301 ORA-27302

ORA-00210: cannot open the specified control file
ORA-00202: control file: '+DATA/mydb/controlfile/current.257.918811113'
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +DATA/mydb/controlfile/current.257.918811113
ORA-15001: diskgroup "DATA" does not exist or is not mounted
ORA-15055: unable to connect to ASM instance
ORA-27140: attach to post/wait facility failed
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:invalid_egid failed with status: 1
ORA-27301: OS failure message: Operation not permitted
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: skgpwinit6
ORA-27303: additional information: startup egid = 1000 (oinstall), current egid = 1031 (dba)
ORA-00210: cannot open the specified control file
ORA-00202: control file: '+DATA/mydb/controlfile/current.256.918811111'
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +DATA/mydb/controlfile/current.256.918811111
ORA-15001: diskgroup "DATA" does not exist or is not mounted
ORA-15055: unable to connect to ASM instance
ORA-27140: attach to post/wait facility failed
ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:invalid_egid failed with status: 1
ORA-27301: OS failure message: Operation not permitted
ORA-27302: failure occurred at: skgpwinit6
ORA-27303: additional information: startup egid = 1000 (oinstall), current egid = 1031 (dba)

Managing ASM Power Limit During Disk Re-balance

While adding or removing disks to/from a diskgroup, ASM does a re-balance of allocation units (ASM extents); we can specify a power limit of this re-balance. Power limit is used to handle the workload of re-balancing in a way that it does not interfere the normal operation of our database and does not slow down IO operations. Following are some important points to note about rebalance power limit.

ORA-01503: CREATE CONTROLFILE failed with ORA-01192

There could be several reasons for facing ORA-01503 while creating a new controlfile. When we plan to create a controlfile, we can write our own script, but creating a script using “ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE” command generates a perfect script for us and we do not need to write script ourselves. In the following I will discuss a scenario where I ORA-01503 and how I solved it.

ORA-01126: database must be mounted in this instance and not open in any instance

There are certain administration tasks that need database to be mounted, not open, while performing the task, otherwise ORA-01126 would be returned. In the following I am explaining one of those operations that returned me ORA-01126 because I had my database open while converting my database to archivelog mode.

RMAN-03009 and ORA-19510: failed to set size of 92079 blocks for file

If you RMAN backup commands are failing with RMAN-03009 with ORA-19502 and ORA-19510, it is because your destination file system has no space left on it for the backup. You need to make sure that file system where you are storing backup should have sufficient space to host the backup. Output of command may be similar to the following

ORA-39087: directory name directory_name is invalid

This error may be returned if you are trying to export or import using oracle data pump, but invalid directory name has been provided during this process. Following is an example of this.

$expdp directory=mydir dumpfile=mydump.dmp logfile=mylog.log schemas=c##salman Export: Release 12.1.0.2.0 - Production on Tue Jun 6 12:05:46 2017

ORA-15075: disk(s) are not visible cluster-wide

While adding a disk to a diskgroup in a RAC, you might face ORA-15075. Following is an example of this error.

SQL> alter diskgroup DATA add disk ‘ORCL:DATA4’, ‘ORCL:DATA5’; alter diskgroup DATA add disk ‘ORCL:DATA4’, ‘ORCL:DATA5’ * ERROR at line 1: ORA-15032: not all alterations performed ORA-15075: disk(s) are not visible cluster-wide

Deinstalling or Removing Oracle Software

We need to use “deinstall” utility to remove Oracle software from a system. In the following I will show how to deinstall Oracle grid infrastructure software. If you have an Oracle RDBMS home dependent on the GI home, then you should deinstall RDBMS software before deinstaling GI software. Process of deinstalling RDBMS home is similar to the deinstallation of grid infrastructure software.

ORA-01652: unable to extend temp segment by 128 in tablespace TEMP

Temporary tablespace is needed when Oracle needs to perform sorting, and doing so is not possible in the memory, therefore it utilizes temporary tablespace. ORA-01652 means that oracle needs to allocate space from temp tablespace and it is not able to do so because temp tablespace is full. Alert log file would log error as follows.