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"RMAN-08137: archived log not deleted, needed ..." even when DG disabled/cancelled

1007321Apr 22 2014 — edited Apr 23 2014

Hello everybody,

I dropped a standby database 2 days ago (really dropped it, with DROP DB statement),

after I had disabled DataGuard broker on both the primary and its standby (set dg_broker_start

parameter to false).

Since then when backing up the primary DB or its archives (and then trying to delete them),

I constantly get

RMAN-08137: WARNING: archived log not deleted, needed for standby or upstream capture process

and RMAN does not get rid of my archive logs.

I thought it was enough to disable dg_broker_start in order to have RMAN delete my archived logs

for good, but obviously it is not: what extra op should I carry out ? How can you manage to have

an ex-primary DB to completely 'forget' and 'ignore' it's been a primary earlier, like if it never has ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Seb

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SeanKilleen
Answer

Hi all,

In this case, the error was resolved by restarting the PC. Something must have gotten a lock on a folder Oracle was trying to access somehow, and nothing was telling in the task manager.

Should have known to check before posting something like this.

Marked as Answer by SeanKilleen · Sep 27 2020
Antonyro-Oracle

<moderator edit - deleted contents of MOS Doc 1569962.1 - pl do not post such content - it is a violation of your Support agreement>

user13491090

This hint did the trick! Thanks.

user11974656

I had the same situation, when I was running the installer 2nd time (installing both 32-bit and 64-bit drivers for some reason). I found following articles on metalink:

  • "[INS-30131] The initial setup that is required to run the installation program validation was not successful " Error While Installing 12.1 (Doc ID 1569962.1)
  • Installation of 11gR2 on Windows Fails Checking Requirements (Doc ID 1133495.1)

Neither of them was helpful. After some time of poking around I noticed service OracleRemExecServiceV2 running from location C:\Users\<MyUsername>\AppData\Local\Temp\2\\oraremservicev2\RemoteExecService.exe - I stopped it and re-ran Oracle client installer. It solved the problem for me.

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