ORA-01281 during capture setup

Question

Based on the example from the oracle streams document I'm trying to get a capture process to start (Oracle 9208). However, it fails on an invalid SCN:
SQL> BEGIN
2 DBMS_STREAMS_ADM.ADD_TABLE_RULES(
3 table_name => 'STAGE.STREAMTEST',
4 streams_type => 'capture',
5 streams_name => 'capture_simp',
6 queue_name => 'strmadmin.streams_queue',
7 include_dml => true,
8 include_ddl => true,
9 source_database => '&src_global_name.' );
10 END;
11 /
BEGIN
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01281: SCN range specified is invalid
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STREAMS_ADM", line 75
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STREAMS_ADM", line 21
ORA-06512: at line 2
I've tried to 'manually' alter it (see below), but the status in dba_capture remains 'ABORTED'.
begin
dbms_capture_adm.alter_capture(capture_name=>'capture_simp',
start_scn=>6089389411510);
end;
1 SELECT capture_name, queue_owner||'.'||queue_name QUEUE, rule_set_owner||'.
'||rule_set_name RSN, status , start_scn, captured_scn, applied_scn
2* FROM DBA_CAPTURE
SQL> /
SQL> conn &src_streams_usr./&src_streams_pwd.@&src_db.
Connected.
SQL> /
Capture Queue
Name Name Rule Set
STATUS START_SCN CAPTURED_SCN APPLIED_SCN
CAPTURE_SIMP STRMADMIN.STREAMS_QUEUE STRMADMIN.RULESET$_71
ABORTED *6089389411510* 0 0
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Hello
Have you performed any upgrades recently? If you have done an upgrade then make sure you follow all the pre and post instructions (like running catpatch.sql)
This looks to be an inconsistency with the logminer catalog when calculating the first_scn or start_scn. Could be that the logminer metadata related to streams is not proper.
The possible workaround is to clean up streams using the following note on metlaink.
<Note: 276648.1> "Remove Streams Procedure for 9.2.0.X"
Then recreate Streams.
Thanks,
Rijesh