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RE: Error Stack

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriolecorp.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:43:59 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00540205.20030131004359@fatcity.com>

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "=?big5?B?c2h1YW4udGF5XChQQ0m+R7hSs9RcKQ==?="
><shuan.tay_at_pci.co.id>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
><ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Sent: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:38:45
>
>Dear DBAs,=0D
>=0D
>My DB was down just now.=0D
>after checking the trace file, it was an CKPT error
>1242,=0D
>using oerr will show:=0D
>"Cause: The database is in NOARCHIVELOG mode and a
>database file was=0D
> detected as inaccessible due to media
>failure."=0D
> Action: Restore accessibility to the file
>mentioned in the error stack=0D
> and restart the instance."=0D
>=0D
>What's the error stack means in the "Action"?=0D
>where can i find it?=0D
>=0D
>Thanks in advance.

Have you checked the trace file or the alert log ? The error stack is simply a list of functions calling each other and returning errors (f1 calls f2 calls f3 calls f4, f4 detects an error, prints a message, returns an error status to f3 which prints a message, returns an error status to f2, etc.... - 'de-stacking' errors, so to speak, hence the name). This kind of information should normally be found in the trace file generated by ckpt. Short of that, what you can do is use some kind of hex editor to look at the names of files in the control file (or use 'strings' under Unix) and check, one by one, that all the datafiles referenced in it are accessible and have the size you would expect. Simplest of all would probably be to try to restart your database, the error message should explictily name the file ...

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