Can you reproduce it? Aftre the logswitch, will the error messages reappear? This very much feels like a bug. I do not know it, and have never seen this behaviour. I'd search the bug-database at Metalink first. If it isn't resolved in a more recent release I'd file an itar. Best regards, Carel-Jan Engel === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === Upcoming appearances: * Jan 27, 2005: London, UKOUG Unix SIG: Data Guard Best Practices * Feb 9-10, 2005: Denver, RMOUG Training Days: Data Guard Performance Issues * Mar 6-10, 2005: Dallas, Hotsos Symposium: Data Guard Performance Issues On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:38, steve noyle wrote: > yes, the standby is pingable and the RFS process and > listener are running at the standby. > > OS - solaris 8 > > the only entry in sqlnet.ora on both the primary & > standby is > NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES,HOSTNAME) > > v$database on primary shows primary,archivelog,read > write, maximum performance > > v$database on standby shows physical standby, > archivelog, mounted, maximum performance > > When I switched log file, the logfile got applied at > the standby site almost instantaneously. I created a > couple of objects on the primary and did verify that > they got created on the standby. > > I've been getting this error when there were no > activities on the database and yet when I tested > loading a table yesterday, no error message. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l