Wednesday, March 27, 2013

ORA-00206 Error in Writing Block String of Control File

Error Code
ORA-00206

Description
Error in writing (block string, # blocks string) of control file.

Cause
Possible cause of this error is, a disk I/O failure was detected on writing the control file.

Action
To fix this error, check if the disk is online, if it is not, bring it online and try a warm start again. If it is online, then you need to recover the disk.

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ORA-00205 Error in Identifying Control File

Error Code
ORA-00205

Description
Error in identifying control file, check alert log for more info.

Cause
Possible cause of this error is, the system could not find a control file of the specified name and size.

Action
To fix this issue, check that ALL control files are online and that they are the same files that the system created at cold start time.

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ORA-00204 Error in Reading Block String of Control File

Error Code
ORA-00204

Description
Error in reading (block string, # blocks string) of control file.

Cause
Possible cause of this error is, a disk I/O failure was detected on reading the control file.

Action
To fix this issue, check if the disk is online, if it is not, bring it online and try a warm start again. If it is online, then you need to recover the disk.

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ORA-00203 Using the Wrong Control Files

Error Code
ORA-00203

Description
Using the wrong control files.

Cause
Possible cause of this error is ,the mount ID in the control file is not the same as the mount ID in the control file used by the first instance to mount this database. The control files are for the same database but they are not the same files. Most likely one instance is using a backup control file.

Action
To fix this issue, check that the correct control files were specified.

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ORA-00202 Control File String

Error Code
ORA-00202

Description
Control file: 'string'.

Cause
Possible cause of this error is, this message reports the name file involved in other messages.

Action
To fix this error, see associated error messages for a description of the problem.

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