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Standby Database Startup Fails With ORA-16187: LOG_ARCHIVE_CONFIG contains duplicate, conflicting or invalid attributes (Doc ID 2070109.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 17, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 12.1]
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

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 For the purposes of this document, the following fictitious environment is used as an example to describe the procedure:

Primary Site: DB_unique_name: adg12102lp

Standby Site: DB_unique_name: adg12102s

In DataGuard configurations, After creating Primary database, "startup nomount" the standby database in the beginning of standby database creation, fails with below error:


Parameter log_archive_config added prior to duplicating standby database.

Cause

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