Re: Upgrade Issue - ORA-00205: error in identifying control file

You don't happen to have more than 1 ASM instance running somewhere? Almost as if it's talking to the wrong ASM instance

Chris

On Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 6:46 PM David Barbour <david.barbour1_at_gmail.com wrote:

> The diskgroups are definitely mounted:
>
> SQL> select name, state from v$asm_diskgroup;
>
> NAME STATE
> ------------------------------ -----------
> ACTIVE MOUNTED
> ARCH MOUNTED
> DATA MOUNTED
> FRA MOUNTED
> OCRVTG MOUNTED
>
> and in ASMCMD I can see the correct controlfiles:
> ASMCMD> pwd
> +data/orcl/CONTROLFILE
> ASMCMD> ls
> current.334.821879157
> ASMCMD> pwd
> +arch/orcl/CONTROLFILE
> ASMCMD> ls
> current.272.820415093
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 6:28 PM David Barbour <david.barbour1_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Of Course. Happy New Year All.
>>
>> Anyone run into this? Upgrading 12.1.0.2 to 12.2.01 on RAC w/ASM
>>
>> ASM has been upgraded to 12.2.0 several weeks ago.
>>
>> Installed new 12.2 software in new home. Altered spfile to
>> cluster=FALSE, moved password files, etc, shut down the instances, tried to
>> start from the new home and get this:
>>
>> SQL> startup upgrade
>> ORACLE instance started.
>>
>> Total System Global Area 2.7488E+11 bytes
>> Fixed Size 29874920 bytes
>> Variable Size 3.2212E+10 bytes
>> Database Buffers 2.4213E+11 bytes
>> Redo Buffers 506994688 bytes
>> ORA-00205: error in identifying control file, check alert log for more
>> info
>>
>> Alert log shows:
>>
>> Errors in file
>> /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/ORCL1/trace/ORCL1_m000_11372.trc:
>> ORA-00202: control file: '+DATA/orcl/controlfile/current.334.821879157'
>> ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file
>> +DATA/orcl/controlfile/current.334.821879157
>> ORA-15001: diskgroup "DATA" does not exist or is not mounted
>> ORA-15040: diskgroup is incomplete
>> ORA-00210: cannot open the specified control file
>> ORA-00202: control file: '+ARCH/orcl/controlfile/current.272.820415093'
>> ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file
>> +ARCH/orcl/controlfile/current.272.820415093
>> ORA-15001: diskgroup "ARCH" does not exist or is not mounted
>> ORA-15040: diskgroup is incomplete
>>
>> But the diskgroups are mounted:
>> ora.ARCH.dg
>> ONLINE ONLINE 685921-db5 STABLE
>> ONLINE ONLINE 685925-db6 STABLE
>> ora.DATA.dg
>> ONLINE ONLINE 685921-db5 STABLE
>> ONLINE ONLINE 685925-db6 STABLE
>>
>> Ideas? Can't seem to find a similar issue with an exception that a TDE
>> Wallet is not configured properly. This database had a tablespace using
>> TDE over a year ago, but that has been eliminated and there is no wallet
>> any longer.
>>
>>
>>
>>

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