ORA-1078 ORA-1565 Errors while starting database with SPFILE on ASM
I was getting following error’s while starting a database using spfile on ASM. Actually this was a cloned RAC environment.
SQL> create SPFILE='+ASM_GROUP/PORTALDB/spfileportaldb.ora' from pfile; File created. SQL> shut immediate; ORA-01109: database not open Database dismounted. ORACLE instance shut down. SQL> exit SQL> startup mount ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters ORA-01565: error in identifying file '+ASM_GROUP/PORTALDB/spfileportaldb.ora' ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +ASM_GROUP/PORTALDB/spfileportaldb.ora ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded
Error first states that it has failed to process the parameter. Second states that it has failed to identify the spfile and is unable to open. But I was able to open the database normally with pfile. Also the spfile was present in ASM diskgroup which I confirmed by listing DG contets on asmcmd prompt.
Problem here was that I had started the database with pfile from non-default location and pfile located in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs had following entries
SPFILE='+ASM_GROUP/PORTALDB/spfileportaldb.ora'
In this case spfile too was created with same contents. Correct method is to specify the non-default pfile location in ‘create spfile’ syntax.
SQL> CREATE SPFILE='+ASM_GROUP/PORTALDB/spfileportaldb.ora' from pfile=\'/home/oracle/portaldb.ora\'; File created. SQL> shut immediate; ORA-01109: database not open Database dismounted. ORACLE instance shut down. SQL> exit SQL> sqlplus \"/ as sysdba\" Connected to an idle instance. SQL> startup mount ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 3674210304 bytes Fixed Size 2088384 bytes Variable Size 2197815872 bytes Database Buffers 1459617792 bytes Redo Buffers 14688256 bytes Database mounted. SQL> alter database open;
The following is an example of how to move your SPFILE from ASM to your file system or vice versa
ASM to File System
In this case, we have our spfile in the +DATA diskgroup and we want to move it to the default location on our file system. The default location will be in our $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory. In order to accomplish this, we need to create a pfile from our existing spfile and then create the new spfile from this temporary pfile. Afterwords, we bounce the database instance for the change to take effect.
SQL> show parameter spfile NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ spfile string +DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora SQL> create pfile='/tmp/orcl.pfile' from spfile; File created. SQL> create spfile='/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/dbs/spfileorcl.ora' from pfile='/tmp/orcl.pfile'; File created. SQL> startup force ORACLE instance started. ... Database mounted. Database opened. SQL> show parameter spfile NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ spfile string /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0 /db_1/dbs/spfileorcl.ora
At this point you may want to clean up the old spfile within ASM. To do that, use the asmcmd utility to remove the file. The file system spfile will take precedence over the ASM spfile, but it’s not a bad idea to remove the old spfile in ASM.
$ . oraenv ORACLE_SID= [orcl] ? +ASM $ asmcmd ASMCMD> cd DATA/orcl ASMCMD> rm spfileorcl.ora ASMCMD> exit
The reverse procedure is similar. However, because Oracle will use the file system spfile first if it sees one, we need to remove or rename that file system spfile before bouncing the database instance.
SQL> show parameter spfile NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ spfile string /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0 /db_1/dbs/spfileorcl.ora SQL> create pfile='/tmp/orcl.pfile' from spfile; File created. SQL> create spfile='+DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora' from pfile='/tmp/orcl.pfile'; File created. $ cd $ORACLE_HOME/dbs $ mv spfileorcl.ora old_spfileorcl.ora SQL> startup force ORACLE instance started. ... Database mounted. Database opened. SQL> show parameter spfile NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ spfile string +DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora
One common error you may run into is if you didn’t provide a full path to the spfile within your ASM diskgroup (i.e., you created the spfile as ‘+DATA’ instead of ‘+DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora’). If that happens, then Oracle is going to assign an Oracle Managed File (OMF) name to your spfile and all you need to do is create an alias for it using the asmcmd tool.
SQL> create pfile='/tmp/orcl.pfile' from spfile; File created. SQL> create spfile='+DATA' from pfile='/tmp/orcl.pfile'; File created. $ cd $ORACLE_HOME/dbs $ mv spfileorcl.ora old_spfileorcl.ora SQL> startup force ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters ORA-01565: error in identifying file '+DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora' ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora ORA-15056: additional error message ORA-17503: ksfdopn:DGOpenFile05 Failed to open file +DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file +DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora ORA-15173: entry 'spfileorcl.ora' does not exist in directory 'orcl' ORA-06512: at line 4 $ . oraenv ORACLE_SID= [orcl] ? +ASM $ asmcmd ASMCMD> cd DATA/orcl/ ASMCMD> ls PARAMETERFILE spfile.277.756994081 ASMCMD> mkalias +DATA/orcl/parameterfile/spfile.277.756994081 +DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora ASMCMD> exit SQL> startup force ORACLE instance started. ... Database mounted. Database opened. SQL> show parameter spfile NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ spfile string +DATA/orcl/spfileorcl.ora
This code was tested on an Oracle 10g Standard Edition database.
ORA-01565: error in identifying file /dbs/[email protected]
When we’re going to create pfile from spfile while spfile running on ASM instance, We can face the below errors,
SQL> create pfile=’/u01/inittest.ora’ from spfile;
create pfile=’/u01/inittest.ora’ from spfile
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01565: error in identifying file ‘?/dbs/[email protected]’
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
Solution :
We need to give ASM path of SPFILE.
SQL> create pfile=’/u01/inittest.ora’ from spfile=’+DATA/dbasm/spfiledbasm.ora';
File created.