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alter mount database failing: Intel SVR4 UNIX Error: 79: Value too large for defined data type

ostendaliNov 28 2013 — edited Nov 29 2013

Hi there,

I am having a kind of weird issues with my oracle enterprise db which was perfectly working since 2009. After having had some trouble with my network switch (replaced the switch) the all network came back and all subnet devices are functioning perfect.

This is an NFS for oracle db backup and the oracle is not starting in mount/alter etc.

Here the details of my server:

- SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i86pc i386 i86pc

- Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0

- 38TB disk space (plenty free)

- 4GB RAM

And when I attempt to start the db, here the logs:

Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 10.2.0.2.0.

System parameters with non-default values:

  processes                = 150

  shared_pool_size         = 209715200

  control_files            = /opt/oracle/oradata/CATL/control01.ctl, /opt/oracle/oradata/CATL/control02.ctl, /opt/oracle/oradata/CATL/control03.ctl

  db_cache_size            = 104857600

  compatible               = 10.2.0

  log_archive_dest         = /opt/oracle/oradata/CATL/archive

  log_buffer               = 2867200

  db_files                 = 80

  db_file_multiblock_read_count= 32

  undo_management          = AUTO

  global_names             = TRUE

  instance_name            = CATL

  parallel_max_servers     = 5

  background_dump_dest     = /opt/oracle/admin/CATL/bdump

  user_dump_dest           = /opt/oracle/admin/CATL/udump

  max_dump_file_size       = 10240

  core_dump_dest           = /opt/oracle/admin/CATL/cdump

  db_name                  = CATL

  open_cursors             = 300

PMON started with pid=2, OS id=10751

PSP0 started with pid=3, OS id=10753

MMAN started with pid=4, OS id=10755

DBW0 started with pid=5, OS id=10757

LGWR started with pid=6, OS id=10759

CKPT started with pid=7, OS id=10761

SMON started with pid=8, OS id=10763

RECO started with pid=9, OS id=10765

MMON started with pid=10, OS id=10767

MMNL started with pid=11, OS id=10769

Thu Nov 28 05:49:02 2013

ALTER DATABASE   MOUNT

Thu Nov 28 05:49:02 2013

ORA-00202: control file: '/opt/oracle/oradata/CATL/control01.ctl'

ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status

Intel SVR4 UNIX Error: 79: Value too large for defined data type

Additional information: 45

Trying to start db without mount it starts without issues:

SQL> startup nomount

ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  343932928 bytes

Fixed Size                  1280132 bytes

Variable Size             234882940 bytes

Database Buffers          104857600 bytes

Redo Buffers                2912256 bytes

SQL>

But when I try to mount or alter db:

SQL> alter database mount;

alter database mount

*

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-00205: error in identifying control file, check alert log for more info

SQL>

From the logs again:

alter database mount

Thu Nov 28 06:00:20 2013

ORA-00202: control file: '/opt/oracle/oradata/CATL/control01.ctl'

ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status

Intel SVR4 UNIX Error: 79: Value too large for defined data type

Additional information: 45

Thu Nov 28 06:00:20 2013

ORA-205 signalled during: alter database mount

We have already checked in everywhere in the system, got oracle support as well without success. The control files are in the place and checked with strings, they are correct.

Can somebody give a clue please?

Maybe somebody had similar issue here....

Thanks in advance.

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