Error in creating standby db... need HELP !!!

Question

Hi,
i want to set up a standby db for current production db and i did the following:
1) shutdown the production db;
2) cp $ORACLE_HOME/oradata/testdb/*.dbf(on
production) to the the standby db server;
3) startup the production db;
4) create a standby controlfile on
production;
5) issue "alter system archive log current"
on production server;
6) copy standby controlfile , init file
and archived logs to standby server;
7) config. the init file;
8) on standby server, i did
(i) startup nomount pfile=initstandby.ora
(ii) alter database mount standby database
(iii) recover managed standby database
up to 8 (iii) , the following error occured:
ORA-01152: file 1 was not restored from a
sufficiently old backup
what's going on ???
Can anybody help me ???
Thanks in advance !!!
stephen
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Answer 1

I also did as you did, but I did not get any error code.
However, the system seems halt after the command of "recover managed standby database;". I checked my standby database log:
Media Recovery Log
Media Recovery Waiting for thread 1 seq# 15
.... log halting here for a long long time (no anyresponse)
Then I try to primary database do the following command:
alter system archive log current;
Then my standby database log have the following response:
Mon Mar 25 16:27:12 2002
Media Recovery Log /oracle/or9i/dbs/arch1_15.dbf
Media Recovery Waiting for thread 1 seq# 16
...... log halting here again
No any output after all. Why? Can anyone tell me?
Shoud the command "recover managed standby database;" have any ending?
And also I tried to use
SQL> recover managed standby database finish;
ORA-16043: sustained recovery session canceled
ORA-16137: No terminal recovery is required
.... Why?