Jared, Was your test done in a non-RAC environment? I can find the rowid's the way you mentioned in a non-RAC environment, but not in a RAC environment. There is no trace file generated for a deadlock in udump on any of my RAC nodes... Are you able to get a deadlock trace file in a RAC environment? Thank you for the time you are spending on this... Regards, Vlado Barun, M.Sc. Sr. Manager, Database Engineering and Operations Jewelry Television Mobile: 865 335 7652 Email: vlado.barun@xxxxxxx From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:28 PM To: Barun, Vlado Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: determining bind values in deadlock situations On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Barun, Vlado <Vlado.Barun@xxxxxxx<mailto:Vlado.Barun@xxxxxxx>> wrote: Jared, However I have trouble finding the rowid's. Following are the relevant excerpts of the lmd0 trace files from both nodes. Where are the rowid's? Am I looking in the correct files? The deadlock trace file will be found in udump. Here's an example from 10.2.0.2 on Windows DEADLOCK DETECTED [Transaction Deadlock] Current SQL statement for this session: SELECT "SQLX" , "EDTX" , "DBNA" , "CLAS" , "TYPE" , "OCCURS" , "SUBC" , "APPL" , "SECU" , "CNAM" , "CDAT" , "VERN" , "LEVL" , "RSTAT" , "RMAND" , "RLOAD" , "UNAM" , "UDAT" , "UTIME" , "DATALG" , "VARCL" , "DBAPL" , "FIXPT" , "SSET" , "SDATE" , "STIME" , "IDATE" , "ITIME" , "LDBNAME" , "UCCHECK" , "MAXLINELN" FROM "REPOSRC" WHERE "PROGNAME" = :A0 AND "R3STATE" = :A1 FOR UPDATE The following deadlock is not an ORACLE error. It is a deadlock due to user error in the design of an application or from issuing incorrect ad-hoc SQL. The following information may aid in determining the deadlock: Deadlock graph: ---------Blocker(s)-------- ---------Waiter(s)--------- Resource Name process session holds waits process session holds waits TX-000a002f-00039963 55 367 X 48 358 X TX-00030005-00007864 48 358 X 55 367 X session 367: DID 0001-0037-00000004 session 358: DID 0001-0030-00000004 session 358: DID 0001-0030-00000004 session 367: DID 0001-0037-00000004 Rows waited on: Session 358: obj - rowid = 00016AC6 - AAAWrGAAbAAGT9VAAE (dictionary objn - 92870, file - 27, block - 1654613, slot - 4) Session 367: obj - rowid = 00016AC6 - AAAWrGAAbAAGT9VAAD (dictionary objn - 92870, file - 27, block - 1654613, slot - 3) Information on the OTHER waiting sessions: Session 358: pid=48 serial=17 audsid=1283076 user: NN/SAPR3 O/S info: user: SapServiceXXX, term: MACHINE , ospid: NNN:NNNN, machine: domain\machine program: disp+work.EXE client info: 0 application name:XXXXXXXX , hash value=888649399 action name: 389, hash value=1894668767 Current SQL Statement: SELECT "SQLX" , "EDTX" , "DBNA" , "CLAS" , "TYPE" , "OCCURS" , "SUBC" , "APPL" , "SECU" , "CNAM" , "CDAT" , "VERN" , "LEVL" , "RSTAT" , "RMAND" , "RLOAD" , "UNAM" , "UDAT" , "UTIME" , "DATALG" , "VARCL" , "DBAPL" , "FIXPT" , "SSET" , "SDATE" , "STIME" , "IDATE" , "ITIME" , "LDBNAME" , "UCCHECK" , "MAXLINELN" FROM "REPOSRC" WHERE "PROGNAME" = :A0 AND "R3STATE" = :A1 FOR UPDATE End of information on OTHER waiting sessions. Jared