Frequent Block Corruption alert .........

We are getting more frequent Block corruption alert from our production RAC (2 node) db.
if we use dbv utility to check block corruption, everything looks normal and if we check following dictionary views, we could not find any details .
GV$BACKUP_CORRUPTION, GV$COPY_CORRUPTION, GV$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION
So do we have block corruption ? what we can do to avoid getting such alerts?

Hi,
>>We are getting more frequent Block corruption alert from our production RAC (2 node) db.
What exactly error are you getting from alert log file?
>>if we use dbv utility to check block corruption, everything looks normal and if we check following dictionary views, we could not find any details
In fact, these views above displays information about corruptions in datafile and/or datafile copy backups from the control file. I think this is the wrong place to look at. In addition, there are many possible causes of a block corruption including bad IO, hardware / firmware, OS problems, Oracle problems ... Are you able to determine which database objects have affected by this problem? Have you tried take a look at some trace files?
Cheers
Legatti

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Frequent block Corruption....

Hi,
Oracle documents mentioned , block corruption rarely happens but i have to frequently face this problem ,mostly logical corruption. And when this happens i have to recover that datafile from the backup which is very much time consuming and loss to business.
What should i do to prevent these corruption....both logical and physical???
Can anyone share their experience to solve the problem taking proper precaution??
Thanks and Regards,

844860 wrote:
I am not sure...how to find the answer???Perhaps there was no block corruption? After all, you have the best h/w on the market and how could it cause corrupted data blocks when an Oracle I/O call give it a data block to write to disk?
Or perhaps you are lying to yourself about this "best in the market" b/s?
Block corruption means that the data block Oracle writes from memory to disk, does not arrive on the disk intact - or that the block is afterwards read from disk 'incorrectly' and arrives in memory as a corrupted block.
If this happens frequently, there are two basic core issues:
- this is h/w related (old failing disks, errors in storage system, etc)
- this is s/w related (the I/O fabric layer and driver used for I/O is faulty/buggy)
The h/w related one is usually easy to diagnose as h/w tests and probes can be done (e.g. running smartctl for SMART analysis of disks).
The s/w related one is IMO a bit more difficult to diagnose. I have seen this with using ASMLib with certain 3rd party driver software, with older OFED driver version for SRP (Scsi Remote direct memory access Protocol), and so on.
Bottom line is that block corruption generates errors and you need to look from the top of the s/w stack down to bottom of the h/w stack to see where these errors are being recorded and what the errors are saying is wrong.

Checking block corruption, why in alert it is saying Error in trace file

Hi,
I am using Oracle 10g 10.2.0.1 with linux 32 bit
I wanted to check block corruption using RMAN by following statement
backup validate check logical database;
when i executed the statement, following was the output
Starting backup at 09-MAY-08
allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: sid=91 devtype=DISK
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting full datafile backupset
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
input datafile fno=00004 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/users01.dbf
input datafile fno=00008 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/workflowuser
input datafile fno=00001 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/system01.dbf
input datafile fno=00003 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/sysaux01.dbf
input datafile fno=00010 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/ifan
input datafile fno=00002 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/undotbs01.dbf
input datafile fno=00007 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/taker
input datafile fno=00009 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/testing1
input datafile fno=00005 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/brokerdb
input datafile fno=00006 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/moneio
input datafile fno=00011 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/web1
input datafile fno=00012 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/e1
input datafile fno=00013 name=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/test/ind1
channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:06:57
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting full datafile backupset
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) in backupset
including current control file in backupset
including current SPFILE in backupset
channel ORA_DISK_1: backup set complete, elapsed time: 00:00:02
Finished backup at 09-MAY-08
and when i do the following query
select * from v$database_block_corruption in sqlplus
then there was no row
so it means there is no logical corruption, but when i am looking at alert log file it is giving following lines
Fri May 9 10:14:04 2008
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/admin/test/udump/test_ora_6606.trc:
Fri May 9 10:14:04 2008
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/admin/test/udump/test_ora_6606.trc:
Fri May 9 10:14:04 2008
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/admin/test/udump/test_ora_6606.trc
and in above trace file following contents
/u01/app/oracle/admin/test4/udump/test_ora_6606.trc
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
System name: Linux
Node name: test
Release: 2.6.18-5-686
Version: #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007
Machine: i686
Instance name: test
Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1
Oracle process number: 61
Unix process pid: 6606, image: oracle@test (TNS V1-V3)
*** 2008-05-09 10:14:04.093
*** ACTION NAME:(0000040 STARTED19) 2008-05-09 10:14:04.071
*** MODULE NAME:(backup full datafile) 2008-05-09 10:14:04.071
*** SERVICE NAME:(SYS$USERS) 2008-05-09 10:14:04.071
*** SESSION ID:(91.40318) 2008-05-09 10:14:04.071
Is it normal, why the in alert file it is saying that Error in.
And it did not create any backupset in folder of flash recovery but in Enterprise manager it is showing last backup on 09-may-2008, why ?
Regards,

See logical corruption is normally termed as the internal inconsistancy within the block which is not caused by Oracle but by the user.So if you find internal inconsistancy than the best option is to look at the user and ask him to get the values sorted out.If the internal inconsistancy is some thig like index fragmentation sort of things or index entry pointing to a null rowid than they are termed as the logical corruption and they should not impact your normal as he data is already there and there is no issue in reading the block as such.
The term "corrupted blocks" I would call both in the tables and backup for those data blocks which are unreadable by Oracle which actualy is Physical corruption.
If i am doing the checking at 2:00 am, does it take more than two hours.I didnt understand this.
what can we do for Physical corruptionThis will need the block to be recovered with the Block Recover command of RMAN and a good backup.Read about it here,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14194/rcmsynta010.htm
About the Logical and Physical corruption checks , check here
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14191/rcmconc1012.htm
Aman....

Block corruption problem in alert and rman/dbv no show errors

Hello, I'm new in Oracle's world. I have one problem with Oracle 10.2.0.4 (RHEL 5.6) x64. Archive redo-log enable
In the alert.log, three days ago show (the server have kernel panic & rebooted):
Mon Sep 24 18:18:17 2012
Hex dump of (file 17, block 669888) in trace file xxxxxxxxxx.trc
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x044a38c0 (file 17, block 669888)
Bad check value found during buffer read
Data in bad block:
type: 6 format: 2 rdba: 0x044a38c0
last change scn: 0x0000.14eb5309 seq: 0x1 flg: 0x04
spare1: 0x0 spare2: 0x0 spare3: 0x0
consistency value in tail: 0x53090601
check value in block header: 0x6ea3
computed block checksum: 0x2
Reread of rdba: 0x044a38c0 (file 17, block 669888) found same corrupted data
Mon Sep 24 18:18:19 2012
Corrupt Block Found
TSN = 23, TSNAME = TABLE_TSD1
RFN = 17, BLK = 669888, RDBA = 71973056
OBJN = 86908, OBJD = 86908, OBJECT = SYS_C0040110, SUBOBJECT =
SEGMENT OWNER = SCHEMA1, SEGMENT TYPE = Index Segment
Yesterday, we detected this error because SQL don't execute.
The error repeat 47times and there is 6 different file-block combination (4 index of schemas, 1 of sys and ¡2 tables!)
First, I launched expdp and exp of the one problematic schema. The export was fine, no errors while exporting, but in the alert.log show one block corruption. Should exp and expd show error and stop?
Next, I used dbv and verify all dbfs. Only show 2 blocks error in two datafiles (indexes).
Next, I used RMAN:
A) check database: no error.
B) validate database: error in two blocks (logical error) and different from the 6 in alert.log. This two blocks are indexes.
I re-create this two indexes. When i re-create, the block error disappear (not inmediate, suppose that disappear when block was rewrite). Now dbv and rman show no error.
I have read one note about types of error, other about procedures if db is in archivelog/noarchivelog. Also if object is index or table. But I find anything about auto-repair corrupt blocks in Oracle or why now the 6 block error are solved. I don't know if two tables with two block corrupt lost rows or not.
Appreciate any help.
Regards

Hello Fran. Result of query before rebuild problematic INDEXES:
SQL> select * from V$database_block_corruption;
FILE# BLOCK# BLOCKS CORRUPTION_CHANGE# CORRUPTIO
3 98857 1 390928740 LOGICAL
9 48632 1 390325900 LOGICAL
When I ran RMAN first time to check blocks, it filled V$database_block_corruption with two bad blocks. Different from the 6 errors from alert.:
RMAN> backup validate check logical database;
Error backing up file 9, block 48632: logical corruption
Error backing up file 3, block 98857: logical corruption
I extracted index name from each block and I re-created it. Also, I created a temporary table in tablespace's datafile to fill blocks empty. Problem solved. Rman / dbv show no error.
I'm searching for similar experiences and found: Re: Data in bad block
First 6 bad checksum errors in alert.log disappear with any visible problem?
Can I sure that DB is fine if RMAN and DBV show no errors?
Thank you very much
Edited by: user7755509 on 27-sep-2012 5:43

Block corruption error keep on repeating in alert log file

Hi,
Oracle version : 9.2.0.8.0
os : sun soalris
error in alert log file:
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/admin/qtrain/bdump/qtrain_smon_24925.trc:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 19750)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u01/app/oracle/admin/qtrain/dbfiles/system.dbf'system datafile is restored from backup still the error is logged in alert log file
Inputs are appreciated.
Thanks
Prakash

Hi,
Thanks for the inputs
OWNER                          SEGMENT_NAME                                                                      PARTITION_NAME                 SEGMENT_TYPE       TABLESPACE_NAME                 EXTENT_ID    FILE_ID   BLOCK_ID      BYTES     BLOCKS RELATIVE_FNO
SYS                            SMON_SCN_TO_TIME                                                                                                 CLUSTER            SYSTEM                                  1          1      19749      16384          1            1
SYS                            SMON_SCN_TO_TIME                                                                                                 CLUSTER            SYSTEM                                  2          1      19750      32768          2            1Thanks
Prakash

Oracle 11g: Block Corruption in SYSAUX File

Hello All,
I am facing Data corruption issue in the SYSAUX file.
We are using Oracle 11G (Microsoft 32 bit) and our system is running in noarchivelog mode.
Following are the errors in the alert log.
e:\sc\sc15.2\databases\oracleconfig\diag\rdbms\enmscsdb\nm45\trace\nm45_p000_5944.trc
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0088a9f8 (file 2, block 567800)
Fractured block found during buffer read
Data in bad block:
type: 6 format: 2 rdba: 0x0088a9f8
last change scn: 0x0000.0b3bb7c7 seq: 0x1 flg: 0x04
spare1: 0x0 spare2: 0x0 spare3: 0x0
consistency value in tail: 0xc7000601
check value in block header: 0xee6b
computed block checksum: 0x72c6
Reread of rdba: 0x0088a9f8 (file 2, block 567800) found same corrupted data
Thu Jan 22 16:46:44 2009
SMON: Restarting fast_start parallel rollback
SMON: ignoring slave err,downgrading to serial rollback
ORACLE Instance nm45 (pid = 12) - Error 1578 encountered while recovering transaction (9, 11) on object 458.
Errors in file e:\sc\sc15.2\databases\oracleconfig\diag\rdbms\enmscsdb\nm45\trace\nm45_smon_6492.trc:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 2, block # 567800)
ORA-01110: data file 2: 'E:\SC\SC15.2\DATABASES\ORACLECONFIG\SYSAUXNM45.ORA'
Thu Jan 22 16:46:45 2009
Trace dumping is performing id=[cdmp_20090122164645]
Corrupt Block Found
TSN = 1, TSNAME = SYSAUX
RFN = 2, BLK = 567800, RDBA = 8956408
OBJN = 458, OBJD = 458, OBJECT = I_WRI$_OPTSTAT_HH_OBJ_ICOL_ST, SUBOBJECT =
SEGMENT OWNER = SYS, SEGMENT TYPE = Index Segment
Following query indicates the corruption is in index.
SQL> SELECT tablespace_name, segment_type, owner, segment_name FROM dba_extents
WHERE file_id = 2 and 567800 between block_id AND block_id + blocks - 1;
TABLESPACE_NAME SEGMENT_TYPE OWNER
SEGMENT_NAME
SYSAUX INDEX SYS
I_WRI$_OPTSTAT_HH_OBJ_ICOL_ST
==============
DBverify output:
==============
E:\SC\SC15.2\Databases\OracleConfig>dbv file=SYSAUXNM45.ORA blocksize=8192
DBVERIFY: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Thu Jan 22 16:59:11 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
DBVERIFY - Verification starting : FILE = E:\SC\SC15.2\Databases\OracleConfig/SY
SAUXNM45.ORA
DBV-00200: Block, DBA 8956312, already marked corrupt
Page 567800 is influx - most likely media corrupt
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0088a9f8 (file 2, block 567800)
Fractured block found during dbv:
Data in bad block:
type: 6 format: 2 rdba: 0x0088a9f8
last change scn: 0x0000.0b3bb7c7 seq: 0x1 flg: 0x04
spare1: 0x0 spare2: 0x0 spare3: 0x0
consistency value in tail: 0xc7000601
check value in block header: 0xee6b
computed block checksum: 0x72c6
DBVERIFY - Verification complete
Total Pages Examined : 1623864
Total Pages Processed (Data) : 540984
Total Pages Failing (Data) : 0
Total Pages Processed (Index): 964944
Total Pages Failing (Index): 0
Total Pages Processed (Other): 17849
Total Pages Processed (Seg) : 0
Total Pages Failing (Seg) : 0
Total Pages Empty : 100086
Total Pages Marked Corrupt : 2
Total Pages Influx : 1
Total Pages Encrypted : 0
Highest block SCN : 190789648 (0.190789648)
SQL> select * from v$database_block_corruption;
FILE# BLOCK# BLOCKS CORRUPTION_CHANGE# CORRUPTIO
2 567800 1 0 FRACTURED
2 567704 1 0 FRACTURED
How to resolve this issue.
Thanks
With Regards
Hemant Joshi.

Drop and re-creating the index would be better than re-building the index.
Check the metalink note: Identify the corruption extension using RMAN/DBV/ANALYZE etc - 836658.1
Note 28814.1 - Handling Oracle Block Corruptions in Oracle7/8/8i/9i/10g
Note 472231.1 - How to identify all the Corrupted Objects in the Database reported by RMAN
ORA-1578 Main Reference Index for Solutions -830997.1

Need advice on ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted

We have a development database server version- 10.2.0.3 with materialized views refresh as complete every morning. Yesterday we had a power failure and the server went down and database was shutdown unexpectedly.
When we restarted the database after the server restarted, we found some of the datablocks got corrupted . Following were the exceptions that we saw in the alert.log.
Errors in file /i01_01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/orcl9/bdump/orcl9_smon_7547.trc:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 11, block # 257712)
ORA-01110: data file 11: '/i01_01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/oradata/orcl9/ts_gen_data_02.dbf'
ORACLE Instance orcl9 (pid = 8) - Error 1578 encountered while recovering transaction (9, 38) on object 54463
I tried the following query to see the segment type.
select owner, segment_name, segment_type from dba_extents where file_id =11 and 257712 between block_id and block_id + blocks - 1;
OWNER
SEGMENT_NAME
SEGMENT_TYPE
VISH
INVENTORY_TXN
TABLE
where " INVENTORY_TXN " is a materialized view that was using the block that got corrupted. I can always recreate the MV by dropping and recreating it. Will it solve the problem???
If not, how can I recover/repair the block.???
Can anyone advice on this. Thanks very much in advance.

To recover a corrupted block,the best way out is to use Blockrecover command of RMAN. So you would need RmAN backup to perform the operation.But first ypu you need to ensure that this is a persistent error or not? Is this error is coming repeatedly or just once it happened?
About Blockrecover command,read here,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14191/rcmrecov005.htm#BRADV157
HTH
Aman....

BLOCK CORRUPTION (ORA-1578) 처리 (ORACLE 8I NEW FEATURE)

제품 : ORACLE SERVER
작성날짜 : 2002-05-31
BLOCK CORRUPTION (ORA-1578) 처리 (ORACLE 8I NEW FEATURE)
========================================================
PURPOSE
Block Corruption의 처리 방안에 대해 알아본다.
Problem Description
block corruption 시 10210, 10211,10231 의 event 를 사용해서
해당 block 을 skip 할 수도 있지만 V8.1 이상에서는
dbms_repair.fix_corrupt_blocks ,
dbms_repair.skip_corrupt_block 를 이용하여
corrupt가 발생한 block을 detect하고 skip, 또는 repair해주는 방안이
제시되고 있다.
Workaround
Solution Description
- 먼저 detecting 을 위해 db_block_checking =true 를 init.ora 에 set
- dbms_repair 의 package 를 사용하는데 이 package 는 dbmsrpr.sql,
prvtrpr.plb를 수행한다 .
- sys 로 접속하여 package 를 실행한다.
다음의 예제를 살펴보자
T1 테이블에 corrupt 된 block 이 있다고 가정한다.
SQL> desc t1
Name Null? Type
COL1 NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
COL2 CHAR(512)
SQL> analyze table t1 validate structure;
analyze table t1 validate structure
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01498: block check failure - see trace file
이때 ANALYZE로 부터 발생된 trace file 에 corrupt 된 block 에 3 row 의
(nrows = 3) data 가 있음을 알수 있다고 가정하자.
DBMS_REPAIR.ADMIN_TABLES (repair and orphan key)
================================================
ADMIN_TABLES 은 table 을 위한 repair table과,인덱스를 위한 orphan key
tables을 제공한다.
SQL> @adminCreate
SQL> connect sys/change_on_install
Connected.
SQL>
SQL> -- Repair Table
SQL>
SQL> declare
2 begin
3 -- Create repair table
4 dbms_repair.admin_tables (
5 -- table_name => 'REPAIR_TABLE',
6 table_type => dbms_repair.repair_table,
7 action => dbms_repair.create_action,
8 tablespace => 'USERS'); -- default TS of SYS if not specified
9 end;
10 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select owner, object_name, object_type
2 from dba_objects
3 where object_name like '%REPAIR_TABLE';
OWNER OBJECT_NAME OBJECT_TYPE
SYS DBA_REPAIR_TABLE VIEW
SYS REPAIR_TABLE TABLE
SQL>
SQL> -- Orphan Key Table
SQL>
SQL> declare
2 begin
3 -- Create orphan key table
4 dbms_repair.admin_tables (
5 table_type => dbms_repair.orphan_table,
6 action => dbms_repair.create_action,
7 tablespace => 'USERS'); -- default TS of SYS if not specified
8 end;
9 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select owner, object_name, object_type
2 from dba_objects
3 where object_name like '%ORPHAN_KEY_TABLE';
OWNER OBJECT_NAME OBJECT_TYPE
SYS DBA_ORPHAN_KEY_TABLE VIEW
SYS ORPHAN_KEY_TABLE TABLE
DBMS_REPAIR.CHECK_OBJECT
=========================
CHECK_OBJECT procedure 는 기술된 object를 check 하고, repair 를 위한 정보를 수집하기 위함이다.
SQL> @checkObject
SQL> set serveroutput on
SQL>
SQL> declare
2 rpr_count int;
3 begin
4 rpr_count := 0;
5 dbms_repair.check_object (
6 schema_name => 'SYSTEM',
7 object_name => 'T1',
8 repair_table_name => 'REPAIR_TABLE',
9 corrupt_count => rpr_count);
10 dbms_output.put_line('repair count: ' || to_char(rpr_count));
11 end;
12 /
repair count: 1
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> desc repair_table
Name Null? Type
OBJECT_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
TABLESPACE_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
RELATIVE_FILE_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
BLOCK_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
CORRUPT_TYPE NOT NULL NUMBER
SCHEMA_NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
OBJECT_NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
BASEOBJECT_NAME VARCHAR2(30)
PARTITION_NAME VARCHAR2(30)
CORRUPT_DESCRIPTION VARCHAR2(2000)
REPAIR_DESCRIPTION VARCHAR2(200)
MARKED_CORRUPT NOT NULL VARCHAR2(10)
CHECK_TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DATE
FIX_TIMESTAMP DATE
REFORMAT_TIMESTAMP DATE
SQL> select object_name, block_id, corrupt_type, marked_corrupt,
2 corrupt_description, repair_description
3 from repair_table;
OBJECT_NAME BLOCK_ID CORRUPT_TYPE MARKED_COR
CORRUPT_DESCRIPTION
REPAIR_DESCRIPTION
T1 3 1 FALSE
kdbchk: row locked by non-existent transaction
table=0 slot=0
lockid=32 ktbbhitc=1
mark block software corrupt
Data Extraction
===============
repair table에 의하면 file 6 ,block 3 에 corrupt 이 났음을 알수 있다
그러나 아직 이 block 은 corrupt 로 mark 되어 있지 않으므로 필요 data 를
추출하여야 한다.
1. ALTER SYSTEM DUMP (nrows = 3) 에 의해 block안에 있는 row수를 결정한다.
2. corrupt object를 select 하여 가능한 정보를 추출한다.
SQL> -- The following query can be used to salvage data from a corrupt block.
SQL> -- Creating a temporary table facilitates data insertion.
SQL> create table temp_t1 as
2 select * from system.t1
3 where dbms_rowid.rowid_block_number(rowid) = 3
4 and dbms_rowid.rowid_to_absolute_fno (rowid, 'SYSTEM','T1') = 6;
Table created.
SQL> select col1 from temp_t1;
COL1
2
3
DBMS_REPAIR.FIX_CORRUPT_BLOCKS (ORA-1578)
============================================
FIX_CORRUPT_BLOCKS procedure는 repair table 의 정보를 이용하여 corrupt
blocks 을 fix 한다
그러나 아직 full table scan 시 여전히 error 가 발생한다
SQL> declare
2 fix_count int;
3 begin
4 fix_count := 0;
5 dbms_repair.fix_corrupt_blocks (
6 schema_name => 'SYSTEM',
7 object_name => 'T1',
8 object_type => dbms_repair.table_object,
9 repair_table_name => 'REPAIR_TABLE',
10 fix_count => fix_count);
11 dbms_output.put_line('fix count: ' || to_char(fix_count));
12 end;
13 /
fix count: 1
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select object_name, block_id, marked_corrupt
2 from repair_table;
OBJECT_NAME BLOCK_ID MARKED_COR
T1 3 TRUE
SQL> select * from system.t1;
select * from system.t1
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 6, block # 3)
ORA-01110: data file 6: '/tmp/ts_corrupt.dbf'
DBMS_REPAIR.DUMP_ORPHAN_KEYS
==============================
DUMP_ORPHAN_KEYS는 corrupt data 에 해당하는 index 를 나타내 준다
SQL> select index_name from dba_indexes
2 where table_name in (select distinct object_name from repair_table);
INDEX_NAME
T1_PK
SQL> @dumpOrphanKeys
SQL> set serveroutput on
SQL>
SQL> declare
2 key_count int;
3 begin
4 key_count := 0;
5 dbms_repair.dump_orphan_keys (
6 schema_name => 'SYSTEM',
7 object_name => 'T1_PK',
8 object_type => dbms_repair.index_object,
9 repair_table_name => 'REPAIR_TABLE',
10 orphan_table_name => 'ORPHAN_KEY_TABLE',
11 key_count => key_count);
12 dbms_output.put_line('orphan key count: ' || to_char(key_count));
13 end;
14 /
orphan key count: 3
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> desc orphan_key_table
Name Null? Type
SCHEMA_NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
INDEX_NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
IPART_NAME VARCHAR2(30)
INDEX_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
TABLE_NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
PART_NAME VARCHAR2(30)
TABLE_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
KEYROWID NOT NULL ROWID
KEY NOT NULL ROWID
DUMP_TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DATE
SQL> select index_name, count(*) from orphan_key_table
2 group by index_name;
INDEX_NAME COUNT(*)
T1_PK 3
Note: orphan key table의 index 는 다시 rebuild 되어야 한다.
DBMS_REPAIR.SKIP_CORRUPT_BLOCKS
===============================
SKIP_CORRUPT_BLOCKS 은 table 과 index 의 corrupt block 을 skip 하는 것을 enable/disable 을 실시한다.
Suggestion: SKIP_CORRUPT_BLOCKS 가 enabled되면 orphan key table의 모든
index 는 모두 rebuild 되어야 한다. ( all index associated with object
if DUMP_ORPHAN_KEYS was omitted).
SQL> @skipCorruptBlocks
SQL> declare
2 begin
3 dbms_repair.skip_corrupt_blocks (
4 schema_name => 'SYSTEM',
5 object_name => 'T1',
6 object_type => dbms_repair.table_object,
7 flags => dbms_repair.skip_flag);
8 end;
9 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select table_name, skip_corrupt from dba_tables
2 where table_name = 'T1';
TABLE_NAME SKIP_COR
T1 ENABLED
SQL> -- rows in corrupt block skipped, no errors on full table scan
SQL> select * from system.t1;
COL1 COL2
4 dddd
5 eeee
--> Notice the pk index has not yet been corrected.
SQL> insert into system.t1 values (1,'aaaa');
insert into system.t1 values (1,'aaaa')
SQL> select * from system.t1 where col1 = 1;
no rows selected
DBMS_REPAIR.REBUILD_FREELISTS
===============================
REBUILD_FREELISTS rebuilds freelists for the specified object.
SQL> declare
2 begin
3 dbms_repair.rebuild_freelists (
4 schema_name => 'SYSTEM',
5 object_name => 'T1',
6 object_type => dbms_repair.table_object);
7 end;
8 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Rebuild Index
=============
Note: Every index identified in the orphan key table should be rebuilt to
ensure consistent results.
SQL> alter index system.t1_pk rebuild online;
Index altered.
SQL> insert into system.t1 values (1, 'aaaa');
1 row created.
SQL> select * from system.t1;
COL1 COL2
4 dddd
5 eeee
1 aaaa
Reference Document
------------------

Try look to alert<SID>.log file for full error report (you could paste it here).
Also from alert log you could get real values for db_block_buffers and shared_pool_size parameters that used during instance startup.

Oracle 11g - How to repair block corruption(on free space) in datafile

Hi,
I have a tablesopace with 3 datafiles, out of which one datafile has corrupted block. But no objects or data is affected as the corrupted block os in free space. This was shown in the alert logs.
Please see below the details:
Wed Apr 06 15:30:04 2011
SMON: Restarting fast_start parallel rollback
SMON: ignoring slave err,downgrading to serial rollback
ORACLE Instance geooap (pid = 12) - Error 1578 encountered while recovering transaction (10, 6) on object 149755.
Errors in file f:\oracle11g\diag\rdbms\geooap\geooap\trace\geooap_smon_5540.trc:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 7, block # 54053)
ORA-01110: data file 7: 'F:\ORACLE11G\ORADATA\GEOOAP\ORDER_DATA_01.DBF'
GEOAP:
Fri Apr 01 14:57:48 2011
Errors in file f:\oracle11g\diag\rdbms\geop\geop\trace\geop_arc1_2156.trc:
ORA-00235: control file read without a lock inconsistent due to concurrent update
Fri Apr 01 14:57:58 2011
================================================================
The corruption is being reported in a free space block of the ORDER_DATA_01.DBF.
I’ve checked all the tables (and indexes) in this tablespace and none report corruption.
=====================================================Is there any action I need to take to remove corruption at this point?It is not affected any operation on the database yet.
What is the best way to do get rid of the corrupt block, without dropping and rebuillding the full tablespace(which is around 6 GB -total of 3 datafiles)
Thanks a lot

Can RMAN recover the datablock from this cold backup(which is a week old, the data file was not corrupted then) ?Please note that to do the recovery, you would need the backup and the archivelog files since the backup. Think about what you are asking to do. Its a single block whose recovery you are asking from a week old backup which obviously would be on an much older SCN compared to the rest of the database. How would you make that block consistent with the rest of the datafile. If you don't have archivelog in that db whose block is corrupted, you may forget that block and any data that it might ever had. Also, please read the documentation about the block recovery which explains the requirements very clearly,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10642/rcmblock.htm#BRADV89784
From the above link, 1st point,
The target database must run in ARCHIVELOG mode and be open or mounted with a current control file.HTH
Aman....

Oracle V11.2.0.3 ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted - OBJECT = IDL_UB1$

Hi,
I am running into a data corruption issue.
My database is:
SQL> select banner from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
CORE 11.2.0.3.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
The following information is written to the alert.log File
alert.log File
Mon Nov 07 17:24:12 2011
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
Picked latch-free SCN scheme 2
Using LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 parameter default value as USE_DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
Autotune of undo retention is turned on.
IMODE=BR
ILAT =27
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
Starting up:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production.
ORACLE_HOME = /home/oracle/dbhome
System name: Linux
Node name: dbl-ora
Release: 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 (This is rhel5.7 or CentOs5.7)
Version: #1 SMP Tue Sep 6 20:14:03 EDT 2011
Machine: i686 / vm
Mon Nov 07 19:42:14 2011
Corrupt Block Found
TSN = 0, TSNAME = SYSTEM
RFN = 1, BLK = 52346, RDBA = 4246650
OBJN = 225, OBJD = 225, OBJECT = IDL_UB1$, SUBOBJECT =
SEGMENT OWNER = SYS, SEGMENT TYPE = Table Segment
Errors in file /home/oracle/diag/rdbms/ora11/K/trace/K_ora_5425.trc (incident=11053):
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 52346)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf'
Incident details in: /home/oracle/diag/rdbms/ora11/K/incident/incdir_11053/K_ora_5425_i11053.trc
I was even able to detect the row that is generating the issue.
In my case the obj# 33573 until 33577 are causing the issue,
though I have no idea what sort of objects are affected.
SQL> select * from idl_ub1$ where obj#=33572;
OBJ# PART VERSION PIECE# LENGTH P
33572 1 0 0 9032 F
SQL> select * from idl_ub1$ where obj#=33573;
ERROR:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 52346)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf'
no rows selected
SQL> select * from idl_ub1$ where obj#=33577;
ERROR:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 1, block # 52358)
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf'
no rows selected
SQL> select * from idl_ub1$ where obj#=33578;
OBJ# PART VERSION PIECE# LENGTH P
33578 1 0 0 9032 F
Any idea, how to fix this problem without recreating the whole database?
Thanks in advance.
wmager
Edited by: magerxr on Nov 7, 2011 8:27 AM

magerxr wrote:
Thanks again for your quick advise.
Here comes the result of dbv against my system tablespace.
[oracle@dbl-ora ~]$ dbv FILE=/home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf
DBVERIFY: Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production on Mon Nov 7 22:39:11 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
DBVERIFY - Verification starting : FILE = /home/oracle/oradata/ora11/system01.dbf
Page 52346 is influx - most likely media corrupt
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0040cc7a (file 1, block 52346)
Fractured block found during dbv:
Data in bad block:
type: 6 format: 2 rdba: 0x0040cc7a
last change scn: 0x0000.0010acfa seq: 0x1 flg: 0x04
spare1: 0x0 spare2: 0x0 spare3: 0x0
consistency value in tail: 0x00000000
check value in block header: 0x8fda
computed block checksum: 0xaafbselect owner, segment_type, segment_name from dba_extents
where file_id = 1 and 52346 between block_id and block_id+blocks-1;
>
Page 52347 is marked corrupt
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0040cc7b (file 1, block 52347)
Bad header found during dbv:
Data in bad block:
type: 1 format: 6 rdba: 0x0000a206
last change scn: 0xacfa.0040cc7b seq: 0x10 flg: 0x00
spare1: 0xfa spare2: 0xac spare3: 0x401
consistency value in tail: 0x00000000
check value in block header: 0x0
block checksum disabled
select owner, segment_type, segment_name from dba_extents
where file_id = 1 and 52347 between block_id and block_id+blocks-1;
Page 52361 is marked corrupt
Corrupt block relative dba: 0x0040cc89 (file 1, block 52361)
Bad header found during dbv:
Data in bad block:
type: 1 format: 6 rdba: 0x0000a206
last change scn: 0xacfb.0040cc89 seq: 0x10 flg: 0x00
spare1: 0xfb spare2: 0xac spare3: 0x401
consistency value in tail: 0x32298500
check value in block header: 0x0
block checksum disabled
select owner, segment_type, segment_name from dba_extents
where file_id = 1 and 52361 between block_id and block_id+blocks-1;
>
>
DBVERIFY - Verification complete
Total Pages Examined : 122880
Total Pages Processed (Data) : 81298
Total Pages Failing (Data) : 0
Total Pages Processed (Index): 22307
Total Pages Failing (Index): 0
Total Pages Processed (Other): 3349
Total Pages Processed (Seg) : 1
Total Pages Failing (Seg) : 0
Total Pages Empty : 15910
Total Pages Marked Corrupt : 16
Total Pages Influx : 1
Total Pages Encrypted : 0
Highest block SCN : 4064615 (0.4064615)post results from 3 SQL above

Block corruption on Standby database

Oracle 10g R2 64bit on Solaris 10 installed on two database server, Sun M5000 and Sun V890
Primary and physical Standby database is configured with Max performance Async mode, log shipping is ok, archive logs are also applying..
I opened the standby database on readonly mode, couple of SQLs are running successfully but few SQLS are throwing error meesaage, here is log message -
SQL> select count(1) from inventory_stock;
select count(1) from inventory_stock
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 12, block # 28109)
ORA-01110: data file 12: '/backup1/np13/data/invindx01.dbf'
ORA-26040: Data block was loaded using the NOLOGGING option
However there is no error meesage recorded in Alert log files related to block corruption. Please suggest

select file#,UNRECOVERABLE_CHANGE#,UNRECOVERABLE_TIME
from V$DATAFILE
where UNRECOVERABLE_TIME is not null
FILE# UNRECOVERABLE_CHANGE# UNRECOVER
4 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
5 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
6 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
7 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
9 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
12 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
13 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
14 9.7327E+12 01-SEP-10
15 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
17 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
22 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
23 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
24 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
32 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
33 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
34 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
35 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
41 9.7324E+12 25-AUG-10
42 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
43 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
44 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
45 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
57 9.7332E+12 11-SEP-10
60 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
62 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
63 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
65 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
66 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
68 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
70 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
71 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
73 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
74 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
75 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
77 9.7324E+12 25-AUG-10
79 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
83 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
84 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
86 9.7333E+12 13-SEP-10
87 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10
89 9.7333E+12 12-SEP-10

Oracle giving Block corruption errors when using CDC for sending the data to SQL Server 2012

Hello Friends,
We are facing an error while using CDC with Oracle. It is a "Block corruption" error, which indicates at some level of data corruption. We ran RMAN validate command to scan the database for corruption but it returned with no errors, however he
Alert Log in Oracle is still coming up with the following error. Has anyone experienced this error when using Oracle Standard Edition and SQL 2012 ?
Trace file e:\app\pulse-ad\diag\rdbms\orcl\orcl\trace\orcl_ora_5992.trc
Oracle Database 11g Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
Windows Server 2003 Version V5.2 Service Pack 2
CPU                 : 4 - type 8664, 4 Physical Cores
Process Affinity    : 0x0000000000000000
Memory (Avail/Total): Ph:6782M/24575M, Ph+PgF:12203M/30844M
Instance name: orcl
Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1
Oracle process number: 151
Windows thread id: 5992, image: ORACLE.EXE (SHAD)
*** 2013-12-12 03:04:33.655
*** SESSION ID:(1281.3832) 2013-12-12 03:04:33.655
*** CLIENT ID:() 2013-12-12 03:04:33.655
*** SERVICE NAME:(orcl) 2013-12-12 03:04:33.655
*** MODULE NAME:(xdbcdcsvc.exe) 2013-12-12 03:04:33.655
*** ACTION NAME:() 2013-12-12 03:04:33.655
Lost-write detected for sequence 70856. The lost-write starts occurring in block 11193. The current block being validating is 12930.
Block dump of the first lost-write block:
Flag: 0x1 Format: 0x22 Block: 0x00002bb9 Seq: 0x000114bf Beg: 0x94 Cks:0x68ee
Dump of memory from 0x0000000598D06C00 to 0x0000000598D06E00
598D06C00 00002201 00002BB9 000114BF 68EE8094 [."...+.........h]
598D06C10 00085BF1 0023BDA1 000DE19C 000DE19C [.[....#.........]
598D06C20 0000000C 00000000 2209160A 5BF10000 [..........."...[]
598D06C30 3EB10502 00C0F5CA 0031BDA1 00010205 [...>......1.....]
598D06C40 02B22C6A 038A6D69 00000001 00000000 [j,..im..........]
598D06C50 4D554407 30373230 35BB0206 001100AE [.DUM0270...5....]
598D06C60 0001040A 000D000E 038A6D69 56B25735 [........im..5W.V]
598D06C70 729C0003 E19C0001 000C0006 000D0006 [...r............]
598D06C80 02BB0502 00C0F5CD 0023BDA1 000A0002 [..........#.....]
598D06C90 00C00013 000000D0 00030201 56B25736 [............6W.V]
598D06CA0 03890001 00000000 00000000 002E0105 [................]
598D06CB0 FFFF0003 00C0F5CD 56B25736 3EB10003 [........6W.V...>]
598D06CC0 FFFF0024 0014000C 000C0018 00120014 [$...............]
598D06CD0 09CC0058 E75B0022 0009000F 00085BF1 [X...".[......[..]
598D06CE0 0024BDA1 000DE19D 000DE19D 0000000C [..$.............]
598D06CF0 00000000 2309160A 5BF10000 3EB10502 [.......#...[...>]
598D06D00 00C0F5CD 0020BDA1 00010205 02B22C72 [...... .....r,..]
598D06D10 03900974 00000019 00000000 3030300A [t............000]
598D06D20 33303030 06323132 AE35BB02 0B441100 [0003212...5...D.]
598D06D30 0001040A 000D000E 03900974 56B25736 [........t...6W.V]
598D06D40 729C0003 E19D0011 000C0006 000D0006 [...r............]
598D06D50 02BB0502 00C0F5CD 0024BDA1 00EA0002 [..........$.....]
598D06D60 00270016 000001FC 00032C01 56B25736 [..'......,..6W.V]
598D06D70 00000001 00000000 30393007 002E0105 [.........090....]
598D06D80 FFFF0003 00C0F5CD 56B25736 00000003 [........6W.V....]
598D06D90 FFFF0025 00140052 000C0018 00070035 [%...R.......5...]
598D06DA0 0003000A 00070003 0001001D 00030001 [................]
598D06DB0 00010001 00010001 00010001 00010001 [................]
598D06DC0 00010001 00010001 00010001 00010001 [................]
598D06DD0 00010001 00000001 00010001 00010001 [................]
598D06DE0 00010001 00000014 09720174 00000022 [........t.r."...]
598D06DF0 0009000F 00085BF1 0025BDA1 000DE19A [.....[....%.....]
Block dump of the current block being validating:
Flag: 0x1 Format: 0x22 Block: 0x00003282 Seq: 0x000114c8 Beg: 0x0 Cks:0x312a
Dump of memory from 0x0000000598DDFE00 to 0x0000000598DE0000
598DDFE00 00002201 00003282 000114C8 312A8000 [."...2........*1]
598DDFE10 50424703 31303607 34353335 69745319 [.GBP.6015354.Sti]
598DDFE20 6E696C72 72502067 6375646F 4C207374 [rling Products L]
598DDFE30 4E206474 C3025650 0380013D 0457454E [td NPV..=...NEW.]
598DDFE40 4E1E09C2 1E09C204 10C2024E 1E09C204 [...N....N.......]
598DDFE50 09C2044E C2024E1E 03C30510 021B0929 [N....N......)...]
598DDFE60 C3053DC3 0F192602 2602C305 C3050F19 [.=...&.....&....]
598DDFE70 0C1A6203 5102C105 C2041F4E 044E1E09 [.b.....QN.....N.]
598DDFE80 4E1E09C2 0410C202 4E1E09C2 1E09C204 [...N.......N....]
598DDFE90 10C2024E 2903C305 78071B09 011D0B71 [N......)...xq...]
598DDFEA0 BF020101 1FBF0215 4E018001 53014E01 [...........N.N.S]
598DDFEB0 0723002C 0B0C7178 0A3C3C18 30303030 [,.#.xq...<<.0000]
598DDFEC0 33373030 4D033337 47034255 36075042 [007373.MUB.GBP.6]
598DDFED0 38333936 4E113331 2065776B 74616C50 [693813.Nkwe Plat]
598DDFEE0 6D756E69 56504E20 0B0AC303 4E038001 [inum NPV.......N]
598DDFEF0 C2045745 0459512E 59512EC2 5253C203 [EW...QY...QY..SR]
598DDFF00 512EC204 2EC20459 C2035951 C3055253 [...QY...QY..SR..]
598DDFF10 1B092903 0B0AC303 3C04C305 C3053239 [.).........<92..]
598DDFF20 32393C04 4F08C305 C105114F 1F4E5102 [.<92...OO....QN.]
598DDFF30 512EC204 2EC20459 C2035951 C2045253 [...QY...QY..SR..]
598DDFF40 0459512E 59512EC2 5253C203 2903C305 [.QY...QY..SR...)]
598DDFF50 78071B09 01190A71 C0030101 C0034709 [...xq........G..]
598DDFF60 8001330A 4E014E01 002C5301 71780723 [.3...N.N.S,.#.xq]
598DDFF70 3C180B0C 30300A3C 30303030 33373337 [...<<.0000007373]
598DDFF80 42554D03 50424703 31304207 344C5131 [.MUB.GBP.B011QL4]
598DDFF90 6F725020 63657073 614A2074 206E6170 [ Prospect Japan ]
598DDFFA0 646E7546 64724F20 44535520 30302E30 [Fund Ord USD0.00]
598DDFFB0 04C30331 03800133 0557454E 5B1603C3 [1...3...NEW....[]
598DDFFC0 03C30521 04215B16 1F4004C3 1603C305 [!....[!...@.....]
598DDFFD0 C305215B 215B1603 4004C304 03C3051F [[!....[!...@....]
598DDFFE0 031B0929 043304C3 4D245AC2 245AC204 [).....3..Z$M..Z$]
598DDFFF0 02C3054D 040A1A18 494002C1 1603C305 [M.........@I....]
*** 2013-12-12 03:05:07.984
** LOGMINER WARNING - Invalidated 6 LCRs **
Complete dump of first invalid START LCR follows:
++ LCR Dump Begin: 0x0000000532C004E0 - CANNOT_SUPPORT
     op: 255, Original op: 3, baseobjn: 0, objn: 233316, objv: 1
     DF: 0x00000002, DF2: 0x00000000, MF: 0x00000000, MF2: 0x00000000
     PF: 0x40000001, PF2: 0x00002000
     MergeFlag: 0x00, FilterFlag: 0x00
     Id: 0, iotPrimaryKeyCount: 3, numChgRec: 4
     NumCrSpilled: 0
     RedoThread#: 1, rba: 0x0114c8.0001c6ce.00d4
     scn: 0x0003.56b593be, xid: 0x0008.00c.00100d85, pxid: 0x0008.00c.00100d85
     ncol: 0newcount: 0, oldcount: 0
     LUBA: 0x3.c109c0.c.15.38f64
Thanks
Dee

Hi Dee,
Thank you for your question.
I am trying to involve someone more familiar with this topic for a further look at this issue. Sometime delay might be expected from the job transferring. Your patience is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
Regards,
Mike Yin
TechNet Community Support

11g Block Corruption Question..

Hello All,
I am running an 11g (11.1.0.7) 64 bit on a Redhat 5.3 host. I did an RMAN clone or copy of this database to another Redhat host, same file structure, DB version, identical to production. I am using 11g enterprise manager GRID control to manage this newly cloned host. When I try to perform a full-backup using the 11g enterprise manager grid control GUI, it tell me that I have block corruption in datafile#7 and lists all the blocks. Now, I know for sure that my production host (where the clone was made from) does not have any corrupt blocks of any sort. I also ran a 'validate database' and 'validate datafile 7' command on the newly created host and all reports back ok. The full backup completes successfully, but where is it getting this corrupt datafile 7 from? Can I clear this block corruption list somehow? Both Production and the newly created clone are free of any block corruption. When I execute an RMAN> backup database command on the newly created host, it fires off and does its thing, no mention of any block corruption, but when I want to perform a full backup with the GUI, it warns me of the block corruption - but lets the full backup continue and complete. GUI issue with 11g enterpise manager grid control?
Please advise..
Thanks,
RB

Its not mandatory that if you are getting the message of block corruption from GUI , it must be true only. Since you are using RMAN, if it can't find a buffer to read in few tries( 3 I believe) , it would mark the buffer as "corrupted" but that's NOT a corruption. As long as you don't see ora-1578 in the alert log repeatedly, you don't have a corruption. What more you can do is to run the command validate ....check logical to confirm that there is some logical corruption detected or not. Other than that, IMO you are fine.
Aman....

Database Block Corruption

Dear Experts,
In our BW system, from the alert log we have found that one oracle block was corrupted.
> ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 137, block #
> 516877)#ORA-01110: data file 137:
> '/oracle/PBP/sapdata1/sr3_121/sr3.data121'#ORA-26040: Data
> block was loaded using the NOLOGGING option
Database error 1578
Database error 1578 at FET
> ORA-01578: ORACLE data block corrupted (file # 137, block #
> 516877)#ORA-01110: data file 137:
> '/oracle/PBP/sapdata1/sr3_121/sr3.data121'#ORA-26040: Data
> block was loaded using the NOLOGGING option
Database error 1578
From the SAP Market place we have found one KBA (1812719 - Avoid NOLOGGING during the index creation) which says that it was not really a corruption and it can be cleared by rebuilding the index.
Can any one please help us how to find the index present in that block. I have tried with below command which returns no rows.
SQL> select segment_name, partition_name, segment_type, block_id, blocks from dba_extents where (516877 between block_id and (block_id + blocks - 1)) and file_id = 137 and rownum < 2;
no rows selected
SQL>
Please suggest how to find the index for rebuilding the same for clearing the corruption.
Thanks
Suresh

Hi Suresh,
Kindly check SAP Notes 365481 - Block corruptions
1559652 - How to deal with block corruptions on Oracle
923919 - Advanced Oracle block checking features
Regards,
Gaurav

Block corruption in Free Space

Hi,
Environment:-
Oralce 10.2.0
Windows platform
I am facing problem of Logical block corruption.
RMAN validate block corruption (DBVerify as well) But no entry in Alert log file.
When I check Which segment has block corruption I found that block corruption are in free blocks of tablespace (DBA_FREE_SPACE).
To Fix it I create table and allocate corrupted block to that table. I confirm corrupted block allocation in table (using DBA_EXTENTS).
But when I insert rows in that table to reuse corrupted block Oracle give error of ora-1578 Block corruption, and I am not able to reuse corrupted block(as many expert suggest to overcome block corruption in free space).
I dropped table and recreate and repeat this process many times but still no success.
So. can anybody help me on this.
I appreciate your efforts and time you spend to read this
Thanks

Hello,
Please check the link i posted.
Example: Detecting Corruption
The CHECK_OBJECT procedure checks the specified object, and populates the repair table with information about corruptions and repair directives. You can optionally specify a range, partition name, or subpartition name when you want to check a portion of an object.
Validation consists of checking all blocks in the object that have not previously been marked corrupt. For each block, the transaction and data layer portions are checked for self consistency. During CHECK_OBJECT, if a block is encountered that has a corrupt buffer cache header, then that block is skipped.
The following is an example of executing the CHECK_OBJECT procedure for the scott.dept table.
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
DECLARE num_corrupt INT;
BEGIN
num_corrupt := 0;
DBMS_REPAIR.CHECK_OBJECT (
SCHEMA_NAME => 'SCOTT',
OBJECT_NAME => 'DEPT',
REPAIR_TABLE_NAME => 'REPAIR_TABLE',
CORRUPT_COUNT => num_corrupt);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('number corrupt: ' || TO_CHAR (num_corrupt));
END;
SQL*Plus outputs the following line, indicating one corruption:
number corrupt: 1

Frequent Block Corruption alert .........

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