ERROR in 9i standby - ORA-01153

Question

Hi,
I am getting error while firing
"recover standby database " command in my 9i standby.
We are manually moving the archivelogs to standby from production, and firing the above command. All are done thru scheduled scripts .
We have a recovery_run log file, with the detailed description of the recovery process running at standby.
----------The following is an extract from the alert log file.---------------
Media Recovery Log /oracle/P71/saparch/P71arch1_334825.dbf
Wed Dec 7 13:46:16 2005
ALTER DATABASE RECOVER standby database
Wed Dec 7 13:46:16 2005
ORA-1153 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE RECOVER standby database ...
Wed Dec 7 13:46:18 2005
ORA-279 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE RECOVER CONTINUE DEFAULT ...
Wed Dec 7 13:46:18 2005
ALTER DATABASE RECOVER CONTINUE DEFAULT
Media Recovery Log /oracle/P71/saparch/P71arch1_334826.dbf
Wed Dec 7 13:47:03 2005
ALTER DATABASE RECOVER standby database
Wed Dec 7 13:47:03 2005
ORA-1153 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE RECOVER standby database ...
Wed Dec 7 13:47:27 2005
ORA-279 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE RECOVER CONTINUE DEFAULT ...
Wed Dec 7 13:47:27 2005
--------The following is an extract from the Recovery_run log file.----------
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production on Wed Dec 7 13:51:29 2005
SQL> Connected.
SQL> ORA-01153: an incompatible media recovery is active
SQL> SP2-0042: unknown command "auto" - rest of line ignored.
SQL> Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.5.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production
Wed Dec 7 13:51:31 NFT 2005
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production on Wed Dec 7 13:52:00 2005
SQL> Connected.
SQL> ORA-01153: an incompatible media recovery is active
SQL> SP2-0042: unknown command "auto" - rest of line ignored.
SQL> Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.5.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production
Wed Dec 7 13:52:01 NFT 2005
-------------The following is extract from the script that fires the recovery command-------------
auto_recover()
echo "connect / as sysdba" > /tmp/reco.sql
echo "recover standby database " >> /tmp/reco.sql
echo "auto" >> /tmp/reco.sql
echo "exit" >> /tmp/reco.sql
su - ${ORAUSER} -c sqlplus "/NOLOG" < /tmp/reco.sql | grep -v "Corpo" | grep -v "Manager"
i checked the v$lock, and found that there is only one active session, which is holding the MR locks.
It was working fine, and today we started getting this error
Any idea about what is happening over here?
Thanks in advance,
Don

Answer 1

At the standby, i also checked
SQL> select max(sequence#) from v$log_history;
And the max sequence number is getting incremented.
That means, the archive logs are getting applied in the standby perfectly... right?
But, how can that happen, since we are getting error while this command is run from the script?
please help me out , to solve this issue.
Thanks in advance,
Don