ORA-00164 Error

I am trying to execute a insert into a table A (located on a remote database) and has a trigger on it which logs on messages using autonomous transactions in the remote messages table.
Remote database 9.2.x.x.x
Current database 9.0.x.x.x
The operation is done using the db link.
insert into tableA@remote values (1, 'a') ;
I am getting an error ORA-00164
Is there any way to resolve this error/problem.
Thanks
Sanjay

You are correct,
Before 9.2 Oracle doesn't support Autonomous Transactions within a Distributed Transaction. As of version 9.2.0 of Oracle9i, this limitation has been removed to a limited extent.
Check this article,
Autonomous and Distributed Transactions in Oracle 8i/9i

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A PL-SQL program update DB1 with data selected in DB2 through a DB-LINK.
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When it enters in this function, it gets this message. Since It DOESN'T write in DB2, there should not be a distributed transaction, and there is no distributed query in this code.
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I have been trying to solve this problem for weeks now, I have posted this question everywhere I can think of, but I havent really received and answer that has helped, so now I am going to post it here hoping for an answer.
We are running 9iAS on Solaris and when the following stuff is run we are getting ORA-00164 errors. If you refresh the page a bunch of time the problem goes away. But it comes back the next time you try to execute the procedure again. Here are the cases when the problem shows up.
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Saving changes to the banner for a page
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ORA-00164: autonomous transaction disallowed within distributed transaction
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Jay,
My name is Craig McCauley. I'm an Oracle Technical Manager working onsite at Unocal Indonesia. I'm with the Portal group in ATS.
When I got here the first thing we did was bump up init.ora parameters and apache confif parameters as suggested by the iPlatform group. We have thes sessions parameter (in init.ora) bumped up from 100 to 700. I'm watching v$session and the get these AT messages with as few as 70 total db sessions. Any help your group can give will be greatly appreciated.
Unocal is planning on implementing Oracle Portal globally - as a common interface. They have similar installs in Thailand and Houston and thus far have not seen the AT messages (although there has not been much development going on at those sites).
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I tried this and get the same error message.
ERROR at line 1:
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(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
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(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC0))
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = alpacwobf)
(ORACLE_HOME = C:\oracle\ora92)
(PROGRAM = hsodbc)
tnsnames.ora
alpacwobf.3LOG.COM =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = SPRUCE)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SID_NAME = alpacwobf)
(HS=ok)
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HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO = AlpacWOBF
HS_FDS_TRACE_LEVEL = 4
HS_FDS_TRACE_FILE_NAME = alpacwobf.log
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restart the listener.
tnsping alpacwobf is ok.
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ERROR at line 1:
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NCRO: Failed to make RSLV connection
ORA-02063: preceding 2 lines from ALPACWOBF
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3 BEGIN
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SQL>
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3   n NUMBER;
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3 END;
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SQL> PRINT x
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I have the following statement
SQL> create table tab2 as
2 select * from tab1@dblink;
and get the error
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ERROR at line 2:
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where is the autonomous transaktion??
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We work with 8.1.7
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Thanks for the answer,
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[oracle@oem trace]$ more /d01/app/guest/diag/rdbms/db11g/db11g/incident/incdir_191809/db11g_smon_4198_i191809.trc
Dump file /d01/app/guest/diag/rdbms/db11g/db11g/incident/incdir_191809/db11g_smon_4198_i191809.trc
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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