ORA-19802: cannot use DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST without DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_S

Question

Hi all,
We are using Oracle 11g R2 RAC on OEL 5.6.
After set the db_recovery_file_dest to FRA diskgroup,
I forgot to set the DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE, and I've started an instance,
like this:
SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET db_recovery_file_dest='+FRA' SCOPE=spfile;
System altered.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL> show parameter recover
NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
db_recovery_file_dest                string
db_recovery_file_dest_size           big integer 0
recovery_parallelism                 integer     0
SQL> shutdown immediate;
Database closed.
Database dismounted.
ORACLE instance shut down.
SQL> SQL> SQL>
SQL>
SQL>
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> startup;
ORA-19802: cannot use DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST without DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZEI need to set the DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE. How can I do this?
I cannot to set this parameter when I startup with mount or nomount option.
Thank you very much!

Answer 1

Hi,
So, you can set the parameter DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE
by using this other node:
ALTER SYSTEM SET DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE=<size> SCOPE=spfile;And in the first node with problems to start the instance you can start like this:
SQL> startup;
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area  835104768 bytes
Fixed Size                  2217952 bytes
Variable Size             624953376 bytes
Database Buffers          201326592 bytes
Redo Buffers                6606848 bytes
ORA-01105: mount is incompatible with mounts by other instances
ORA-19808: recovery destination parameter mismatchThe above error is normal in this moment because you must to set
the parameters on other node too, like this:
node2:
ALTER SYSTEM SET DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE=<size> SCOPE=spfile;
ALTER SYSTEM SET db_recovery_file_dest='+FRA' SCOPE=spfile;
SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE;
STARTUP;
node1:
SHUTDOWN; (again)
STARTUP; (now without any errors)
Regards. :-)