ORA-00600 [3631] recovering pluggable database after flashback database in Oracle 12c

I was trying to recreate the scenario where a 12c container database is flashed back to a SCN before the point that I recovered a pluggable database to using point in time recovery.

I got this ugly ORA-00600:

RMAN> recover pluggable database pdborcl;

Starting recover at 16-APR-14
using channel ORA_DISK_1

starting media recovery
media recovery failed
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 04/16/2014 06:07:40
ORA-00283: recovery session canceled due to errors
RMAN-11003: failure during parse/execution of SQL statement: alter database recover if needed
 datafile 32 , 33 , 34 , 35
ORA-00283: recovery session canceled due to errors
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [3631], [32], [4096], [4210689], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []

I think the above error message stems from this bug:

Bug 14536110  ORA-600 [ktfaput: wrong pdb] / crash using PDB and FDA

There may have been some clever way to recover from this but I ended up just deleting and recreating the CDB through DBCA which was good experience playing with DBCA in Oracle 12c.  I’m trying to learn 12c but I have a feeling that I have hit a bug that keeps me from testing this flashback database, point in time recovery of a pluggable database scenario.  I wonder if I should patch?  I think that Oracle has included a patch for this bug in a patch set.  It could be good 12c experience to apply a patch set.

– Bobby

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2 Responses to ORA-00600 [3631] recovering pluggable database after flashback database in Oracle 12c

  1. Anju Garg says:

    Hi Bobby,

    It is not a bug . That’s the way it is supposed to behave.

    Please look at the following links:
    http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/backup.121/e17630/rcmflash.htm#BRADV800
    http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/backup.121/e17630/rcmflash.htm#BRADV802

    Regards
    Anju Garg

    • Bobby says:

      Anju,

      I was doing the same steps listed in those manuals when I got the ORA-00600. That is why I think it is a bug.

      – Bobby

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