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issue creating pfile from spfile [message #349066]

Thu, 18 September 2008 15:24

divroro12
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Registered: March 2008
Location: Laurel, MD USA

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Hi all,

I'm having the following error trying to create a pfile from my spfile which was used to start the database:

SQL> create pfile='/medstat/advantage/advprod/db_home/ddl_templates/initmedstat.ora' from spfile='/medstat/advantage/common/app/oracle/product/10.2.0.2/dbs/spfileadvprod.ora'
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create pfile='/medstat/advantage/advprod/db_home/ddl_templates/initmedstat.ora' from spfile='/medstat/advantage/common/app/oracle/product/10.2.0.2/dbs/spfileadvprod.ora'
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-27046: file size is not a multiple of logical block size
Additional information: 1
Additional information: 2541
Additional information: 512

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks,

divroro12

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Re: issue creating pfile from spfile [message #349070 is a reply to message #349066]

Thu, 18 September 2008 15:29

Mahesh Rajendran
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most probably your spfile is corrupt.
did you ever manually edit the spfile?

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Re: issue creating pfile from spfile [message #349073 is a reply to message #349066]

Thu, 18 September 2008 15:42

divroro12
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Yes, i did...

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Re: issue creating pfile from spfile [message #349087 is a reply to message #349073]

Thu, 18 September 2008 18:58

ebrian
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You can not manually edit a spfile, it is a binary file. At this point, if you don't have a backup of the spfile or you don't have a pfile to use, you can open the spfile and copy all the text and save it to another text file. Then you can start the database using:

SQL> startup pfile='<new_text_file>'

You can recreate a spfile at this point by using:

SQL> create spfile from pfile='<new_text_file>';

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Re: issue creating pfile from spfile [message #349653 is a reply to message #349066]

Mon, 22 September 2008 09:11

divroro12
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Registered: March 2008
Location: Laurel, MD USA

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thank you all for your contributions. I did have a backup pfile from which i recreated the spfile, & all is now perfect.

Regards,

divroro12

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