Database And ASM Instance Ora-27300 OS System Dependent Operation Fork Failed With Status 11 (Doc ID 2331884.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 20, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

On : 12.2.0.1 version,  see below errors in DB or ASM alert log. But could occur on lower version databases too.

When checking crs, listener status become INTERMEDIATE

ora.ASMNET1LSNR_ASM.lsnr
ONLINE INTERMEDIATE xxxxx STABLE

orachk, RDA HCVE, OSW, CVU do not report relevant issues.

Rebooting the node could be a workaround for this issue, but after the node is up for some time issue will reoccur.

In one another case,  customer also reports

During cluster (2-nodes) startup the CHA daemon failed on the second node.

found following output in ochadOUT.trc:
Wed Mar 14 11:53:02 2018
Start OCHAD
Return code is 0
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
Wed Mar 14 11:58:04 2018
Clean OCHAD
Return code is 0
Wed Mar 14 11:58:14 2018
Start OCHAD
Return code is 0
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:714)
at oracle.ops.mgmt.cluster.GetActiveNodes.<init>(GetActiveNodes.java:203)
at oracle.ops.mgmt.cluster.GetActiveNodes.create(GetActiveNodes.java:221)
at oracle.ops.mgmt.cluster.Cluster.getLocalNode(Cluster.java:338)
at oracle.cha.util.CHAUtil.getLocalHost(CHAUtil.java:85)
at oracle.cha.server.CHADDriver.<clinit>(CHADDriver.java:89)
Wed Mar 14 12:03:16 2018
Clean OCHAD
Return code is 0

Cause

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