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ORA-38760: This database instance failed to turn on flashback database

2971116Oct 25 2015 — edited Oct 25 2015

Hi guys

I unknowingly deleted all the files from 'fra' directory where ’flashback’ folder was there due to space issues. Now am facing the error.

This is my practicing database.

SQL> startup

ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  608174080 bytes

Fixed Size                  1268920 bytes

Variable Size             184550216 bytes

Database Buffers          419430400 bytes

Redo Buffers                2924544 bytes

Database mounted.

ORA-38760: This database instance failed to turn on flashback database

SQL> alter database flashback off;

Database altered.

SQL>SHUT IMMEDIATE;

SQL>STARTUP MOUNT

SQL> select flashback_on from v$database;

FLASHBACK_ON

------------------

RESTORE POINT ONLY

Am not being able to turn flashback OFF.

SQL> select * from v$restore_point;

select * from v$restore_point

              *

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-38701: Flashback database log 1 seq 1 thread 1:

"/u01/fra/PROD/flashback/o1_mf_c1l5n3lq_.flb"

ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status

Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory

Additional information: 3

SQL> select flashback_on from v$database;

FLASHBACK_ON

------------------

RESTORE POINT ONLY

I also tried creating a restore point and flashback it.

SQL> create restore point rspt1 guarantee flashback database;

Restore point created.

SQL>select * from v$restore_point;

select * from v$restore_point

              *

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [krfg_get_keepseq_2], [1], [0], [0],

[0], [0], [0], [0]

SQL> flashback database to restore point rspt1;

flashback database to restore point rspt1

*

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-38729: Not enough flashback database log data to do FLASHBACK.

Please help me in this regard.

Alert Log File :

...

...

...

Successful mount of redo thread 1, with mount id 305866694

Sun Oct 25 10:13:30 2015

Allocated 3981204 bytes in shared pool for flashback generation buffer

Starting background process RVWR

RVWR started with pid=16, OS id=15486

Sun Oct 25 10:13:30 2015

Errors in file /u01/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/prod/bdump/prod_rvwr_15486.trc:

ORA-38701: Flashback database log 11 seq 11 thread 1: "/u01/fra/PROD/flashback/o1_mf_c2oqypb0_.flb"

ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status

Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory

Additional information: 3

Sun Oct 25 10:13:30 2015

Database mounted in Exclusive Mode

Completed: ALTER DATABASE   MOUNT

Sun Oct 25 10:13:30 2015

ALTER DATABASE OPEN

ORA-38760 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE OPEN...

Trace File :

...

...

...

*** SERVICE NAME:() 2015-10-25 10:13:30.087

*** SESSION ID:(156.1) 2015-10-25 10:13:30.087

ORA-38701: Flashback database log 11 seq 11 thread 1: "/u01/fra/PROD/flashback/o1_mf_c2oqypb0_.flb"

ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status

Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory

Additional information: 3

  1. Thanks.
This post has been answered by Emad Al-Mousa on Oct 25 2015
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