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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Matt…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Matt Daniels
[mailto:Matt.Daniels@priorityhealthcare.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 24, 2004
9:30 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> ocfs-users@oss.oracle.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Ocfs-users] ORA-01207
after SAN maintenance</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We
had a situation over the weekend with our production database that we can't
figure out, hoping someone can shed some light.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Specifics:</span></font>
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<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Oracle
9.2.0.4</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>OS is
Redhat AS2.1</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ocfs-2.4.9-e-summit-1.0.12-1</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ocfs-tools-1.0.10-1</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ocfs-support-1.0.10-1</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.12-1</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>All
database, redo, undo, and control files are on ocfs, archived logs are on ext3.</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We
shut down the database for san maintenance, but didn't shut down cluster</span></font>
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<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>manager.
The san was disconnected from the server, a tray was added and then</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>the
san was reconnected. The server and cluster manager remained up during
the</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>maintenance.</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When
we tried to restart the database, we got an ORA-01207, saying the control</span></font>
<br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>file
was older than the datafiles. Per Oracle support, we recreated the
control file</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>and
attempted to bring the db up with the new one. At this point we received
the</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>following:</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Errors
in file /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/admin/ENTPRD/udump/entprd2_ora_22596.trc:</span></font>
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<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ORA-00600:
internal error code, arguments: [kcoapl_blkchk], [5], [393], [6101], [], [],
[], []</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There's
a RAC bug entry for [kcoapl_blkchk], but it was for a 4-node RAC, ours is only</span></font>
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<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2
nodes, so Oracle internals support said they didn't think it applied to our
case. We</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ended
up doing a point-in-time recovery to before the san maintenance, but moved the</span></font>
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<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>datafiles
to an ext3 partition for now.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Has
anyone seen this before, or have any input as to what happened? We're
trying to</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>determine
if this is a bug, and if we should move back to RAC/ocfs.</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks
very much,</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Matt
Daniels</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Apps
DBA, Priority Healthcare Corp</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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