Nope. We use pretty generic SAP/Oracle install. From: Jeffrey Beckstrom [mailto:JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:20 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Laurent, Vincent Subject: Re: Weird alert log errors Could someone have been trying to run logminer and referenced that log file? Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Information Systems 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 >>> "Laurent, Vincent" >>> <Vince_Laurent@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:Vince_Laurent@xxxxxxxxx>> 1/27/12 3:08 PM >>> >>> Saw this in one of our server logs this past week. I have edited out the dups: ------------------------------------------ Fri Jan 20 16:06:43 2012 Archived Log entry 43943 added for thread 1 sequence 40114 ID 0x5f1dd5ea dest 1: Fri Jan 20 16:07:41 2012 Errors in file /oracle/BDE/saptrace/diag/rdbms/bde/BDE/trace/BDE_ora_6688.trc: ORA-00308: cannot open archived log '/oracle/BDE/oraarch/BDEarch1_37711_517935416.dbf' ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status HPUX-ia64 Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3 Fri Jan 20 16:08:16 2012 Errors in file /oracle/BDE/saptrace/diag/rdbms/bde/BDE/trace/BDE_ora_6688.trc: ORA-00308: cannot open archived log '/oracle/BDE/oraarch/BDEarch1_37711_517935416.dbf' ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status HPUX-ia64 Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3 Non critical error ORA-48913 caught while writing to trace file "/oracle/BDE/saptrace/diag /rdbms/bde/BDE/trace/BDE_ora_6688.trc" Error message: ORA-48913: Writing into trace file failed, file size limit [20480000] reached Writing to the above trace file is disabled for now on... Fri Jan 20 16:11:46 2012 Completed checkpoint up to RBA [0x9cb3.2.10], SCN: 41677510828 Fri Jan 20 16:20:27 2012 Beginning log switch checkpoint up to RBA [0x9cb4.2.10], SCN: 41677661976 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 40116 (LGWR switch) Current log# 7 seq# 40116 mem# 0: /oracle/BDE/origlogB/log_g7m1.dbf Current log# 7 seq# 40116 mem# 1: /oracle/BDE/mirrlogB/log_g7m2.dbf Fri Jan 20 16:20:29 2012 Archived Log entry 43944 added for thread ------------------------------------------ Why was oracle trying to write to an archive log that was over a month old? Of course the log file was gone. It had been backed up and deleted weeks ago. -Vince Laurent SAP BASIS Support SSM IHT Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l