Have u checked ML note 356052.1 -Fairlie Anurag Verma <anuragdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Friends, I am doing RMAN DUPLICATE for a RAC database which is running on IBM AIX with hacmp. Getting the below message... ================================= printing stored script: Memory Script { Alter clone database open resetlogs; } executing script: Memory Script RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00601: fatal error in recovery manager RMAN-03004: fatal error during execution of command RMAN-10039: error encountered while polling for RPC completion on channel clone_default RMAN-10006: error running SQL statement: select act from x$ksusex where sid=:1 and serial=:2 RMAN-10002: ORACLE error: ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 10/05/2006 19:38:34 RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script RMAN-06136: ORACLE error from auxiliary database: ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel Have any of you seen this message before and any workaround/solution ?? Any help is welcome... Thanks in advance, Anurag Fairlie Rego Senior Oracle Consultant http://el-caro.blogspot.com/ M: +61 402 792 405 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail.