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RMAN-06136 ORA-01620: No Public Threads Are Available For Mount (Doc ID 2325012.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 17, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

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 Database:
DB_NAME: ORCL
Diskgroup :- ORCL_REDO

RMAN can fail when running duplicate database with error below

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RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 11/04/2017
RMAN-05501: aborting duplication of target database
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-06136: ORACLE error from auxiliary database: ORA-01620: no public threads are available for mounting

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All threads in source database are PUBLIC and OPEN. Source database is not RAC.

SQL> select thread#, status, enabled, instance from v$thread;

SQL> /

THREAD# STATUS ENABLED INSTANCE
---------- ------ -------- ----------
1 OPEN PUBLIC ORCL

Changes

 NA

Cause

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