Undo initialization errored: err:30012 serial:0 start:568825214 end:568825224 diff:10 (0 seconds)
Errors in file /opt/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/xa04/xa04s2/trace/xa04s2_ora_19364.trc:
ORA-30012: undo tablespace 'UNDOTBS8' does not exist or of wrong type
Errors in file /opt/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/xa04/xa04s2/trace/xa04s2_ora_19364.trc:
ORA-30012: undo tablespace 'UNDOTBS8' does not exist or of wrong type
Error 30012 happened during db open, shutting down database
USER (ospid: 19364): terminating the instance due to error 30012
Instance terminated by USER, pid = 19364
ORA-1092 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE OPEN /* db agent *//* {3:48375:37745} */...
opiodr aborting process unknown ospid (19364) as a result of ORA-1092
Tue Jun 24 00:41:56 2014
ORA-1092 : opitsk aborting process Both primary and standby databases are RACs in a dataguard configuration and the problem was happening on the new primary (old standby).Checking the tablespace and datafile views shows the presence of the above mentioned tablespace and the undo data file. Also each instance has its own tablespace assigned to it, as it should be on a RAC environment.
xa04s1.undo_tablespace='UNDOTBS7' xa04s2.undo_tablespace='UNDOTBS8' xa04s3.undo_tablespace='UNDOTBS9' xa04s4.undo_tablespace='UNDOTBS10' xa04s5.undo_tablespace='UNDOTBS11'The undo management was already set to auto when the dataguard configuration was created. Yet it was not possible to start the instances (xa04s2-xa04s5).
There was no data guard specific information on this error but MOS note 1344944.1 shows how to create an undo tablespace when the same error occurs for newly added RAC instance. Following this note new undo tablespaces were created for each of the instances after which it was possible to bring up all the instances. But it is not clear as to why this error occurred when each instance was assigned a specific undo tablespace and that file is physically present in the system.
Useful metalink notes
How to create undo tablespace for a newly added RAC instance (ORA-30012) [ID 1344944.1]
ORA-30012 Database Does Not Start With UNDO_MANAGEMENT=AUTO [ID 258506.1]
