RMAN "Memory fault"

From: Herring Dave - dherri <Dave.Herring_at_acxiom.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:33:45 -0500
Message-ID: <7ED53A68952D3B4C9540B4EFA5C76E3603D4FC5B@CWYMSX04.Corp.Acxiom.net>

Folks,

I've got a regular job to delete obsolete pieces from our RMAN catalog, which now is failing with "Memory fault". The system is Tru64 5.1b running Oracle 9.2.0.6 and the RMAN catalog is 10.2.0.2. Backups are to tape using Legato Networker 7.1.1.

The procedure is very simple, just connecting to the target and catalog, allocating a channel and deleting:

CONNECT CATALOG ../..@..
CONNECT TARGET ../..@..
ALLOCATE CHANNEL FOR MAINTENANCE DEVICE TYPE sbt_tape; DELETE NOPROMPT OBSOLETE; The ONLY thing I get back is:

RMAN retention policy will be applied to the command RMAN retention policy is set to redundancy 4 Memory fault

No Oracle errors show up in either database. I can't find messages or info anywhere as to why this is happening. I tried setting my retention to larger numbers, thinking there's too many pieces to delete, but that didn't work. Current retention is 4 copies. I also tried using RECOVERY WINDOW TO xxx DAYS, which failed too. I even truss'ed the session and it ends with:

...

write(10, "\0BD\0\006\0\0\0\0\003 ^".., 189)    = 189
read(10, "01 m\0\006\0\0\0\0\00701".., 2064)    = 365
write(10, "\0BD\0\006\0\0\0\0\003 ^".., 189)    = 189
read(10, "01 t\0\006\0\0\0\0\00701".., 2064)    = 372

Incurred fault #32, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x000000012105DD84 addr = 0x000000011FFF4D00 Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default]

      siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x0000000000000058
                                                Err#11 Error 11 occurred.
        *** process killed ***

Anyone run into something similar or have any good suggestions of what else to check?

Dave

David C. Herring, DBA | A c x i o m Delivery Center Organization 630-944-4762 office | 630-430-5988 wireless | 630-944-4989 fax

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