Re: Problem on Win2k

This error is nearly, but not quite, always caused by the archivelog destination running out of space. You say that you checked disk space (I assume you mean on e:\). Another possible cause is that the drive is networked in someway (NAS/SAN) and you temporarily lost connection to it - this or hardware errors - should show up in the system event log.

Finally there is a bug in OCFS which matches your description - though you seem to be running 8i so I guess OCFS doesn't come into the equation.

On 7/12/06, Alessandro Vercelli <alever_at_libero.it> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I'm facing with a strange problem with Oracle 8.1.7 on win2k.
> Some days ago database freezed completely with the following error in
> alert log:
>
> Mon Jul 10 14:25:45 2006
> ARC0: Error 19504 creating archivelog file
> 'E:\ORA817\MMOHSDB\ARCHIVE\MMOHSDBT001S07878.ARC'
> ARC0: Archiving not possible: error count exceeded
> ARC0: Failed to archive log# 3 seq# 7878
> ARCH: Archival stopped, error occurred. Will continue retrying
> ARCH:
> ORA-16014: log 3 sequence# 7878 not archived, no available destinations
> ORA-00312: online log 3 thread 1: 'D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\MMOHSDB\REDO03.LOG'
>
> After this initial error, I found a very long series of:
>
> ARC0: Beginning to archive log# 3 seq# 7878
> ARC0: Archiving not possible: No primary destinations
> ARC0: Failed to archive log# 3 seq# 7878
>
> Tried to close the db with immediate, but it hanged, using abort
> succeeded.
>
> In the first looking for errors, I checked disk space which was more than
> 4 Gb free, so this was not the problem; after I looked at the archived log
> destination which contained 2908 archived logs (this is an operative db
> and the setting up for a backup server is slowed down by some "business"
> discussions...); so I created a temporary location in which I moved most of
> the archived logs.
>
> The db restarted successfully, and now is running without problems, but
> I'd like to find what is the above error; I don't remember there are issues
> on Win2k related to number of files into a directory, surely there're
> limitations but they're much higher than 2908; prior of moving archived
> logs, I tried to create a file into the same location without problem.
>
> Has any body experienced such an issue?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Alessandro
>
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