Recovery point creation failing

Hoping for some ideas,
I have a secondary backup for offsite purposes that I recently realized started failing at creating recovery points. The synchronizations complete fine but then instantly fails the recovery point with the error "No recovery point was created, either
because synchronization has not occurred since the last recovery point was created, or because no changes were found during synchronization. (ID 208)". Synchronization has occurred and there are always changes as this is a file server. I ran a consistency
check which also completed without error. Seems to be some sort of database issue to me. I've been searching for answers but not having any luck.
Thanks!

So I have been fooled once again. Since my OP, I have realized even though the CC and sync jobs say completed with a green check icon, they actually failed with the same error:
Type: Synchronization
Status: Completed
Description: The job completed successfully with the following warning:
The synchronization job failed due to an internal error. (ID 117)
Kind of misleading, "It successfully completed failing"
The only tip I found was to create a current recovery point on the primary right before running a CC on the secondary but it still failed with the same error. I'm hoping to get this sorted out before I just decide to start it from scratch as it's about 7TB
of data and the best option for that is to bring the secondary onsite here to make the initial transfer.
Any ideas appreciated.

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    0 S jdevadf 25477 1 0 80 0 - 680831 semtim 02:33 ? 00:00:00 ora_j001_srg102
    Stack:
    [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
    0x00000038556d5497 in semop () from /lib64/libc.so.6
    #0 0x00000038556d5497 in semop () from /lib64/libc.so.6
    #1 0x0000000003d91322 in sskgpwwait ()
    #2 0x0000000003d73d7a in skgpwwait ()
    #3 0x00000000007acf87 in kslges ()
    #4 0x00000000007ac8f0 in kslgetl ()
    #5 0x0000000000777a37 in kstipg ()
    #6 0x0000000000813aaa in ksucrp ()
    #7 0x0000000002498644 in kkjrdp ()
    #8 0x00000000030b98c7 in opirip ()
    #9 0x00000000013a4a2b in opidrv ()
    #10 0x0000000001f9e66e in sou2o ()
    #11 0x000000000072d2c5 in opimai_real ()
    #12 0x000000000072d17c in main ()
    A debugging session is active.
    Inferior 1 [process 25477] will be detached.
    Quit anyway? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
    Process diagnostic dump actual duration=1.190000 sec
    (max dump time=30.000000 sec)
    *** 2012-02-02 02:34:30.544
    *** 2012-02-02 02:34:40.555
    Waited for process J001 to initialize for 70 seconds
    *** 2012-02-02 02:34:40.555
    Process diagnostic dump for J001, OS id=25477
    loadavg : 4.80 3.71 3.35
    Memory (Avail / Total) = 728.61M / 11706.12M
    Swap (Avail / Total) = 1904.81M / 2047.34M
    F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD
    0 S jdevadf 25477 1 0 80 0 - 680831 semtim 02:33 ? 00:00:00 ora_j001_srg102
    Stack:
    [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
    0x00000038556d5497 in semop () from /lib64/libc.so.6
    #0 0x00000038556d5497 in semop () from /lib64/libc.so.6
    #1 0x0000000003d91322 in sskgpwwait ()
    #2 0x0000000003d73d7a in skgpwwait ()
    #3 0x00000000007acf87 in kslges ()
    #4 0x00000000007ac8f0 in kslgetl ()
    #5 0x0000000000777a37 in kstipg ()
    #6 0x0000000000813aaa in ksucrp ()
    #7 0x0000000002498644 in kkjrdp ()
    #8 0x00000000030b98c7 in opirip ()
    #9 0x00000000013a4a2b in opidrv ()
    #10 0x0000000001f9e66e in sou2o ()
    #11 0x000000000072d2c5 in opimai_real ()
    #12 0x000000000072d17c in main ()
    A debugging session is active.
    Inferior 1 [process 25477] will be detached.
    Quit anyway? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
    [repeated for several processes]
    I can upload the files or they are available on the internal network.
    Initially i thought it was bug 8426816, but that's supposed to be included in the 10.2.0.5.0 patchset.

    Hi;
    Symptoms are that the incoming sessions will start to time out with ora-3136, then the alert log will show
    ksvcreate: Process(m000) creation failedDid you check note Troubleshooting Guide (TSG) - ksvcreate: Process(xxxx) creation failed [ID 1379200.1] ?
    Regard
    Helios

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