RMAN DUPLICATE FAILES WITH ORA-01503 RMAN-06136 ORA-01504 (Doc ID 269801.1)

Symptoms

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

Database/Instance Name  = RMANDUP
Directory = F:\ORA92\DATABASE, F:\ORA92\ORADATA\RMANDUP and all subdirectories

While duplicating the database using RMAN you get following errors:

printing stored script: Memory Script
{
shutdown clone;
startup clone nomount ;
}
executing script: Memory Script

database dismounted
Oracle instance shut down

connected to auxiliary database (not started)
startup failed: ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file 'F:\ORA92\DATABASE\INITRMANDUP.ORA'

trying to start the Oracle instance without parameter files ...
Oracle instance started

Total System Global Area 97589952 bytes

Fixed Size 453312 bytes
Variable Size 46137344 bytes
Database Buffers 50331648 bytes
Redo Buffers 667648 bytes
sql statement: CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE SET DATABASE "RMANDUP" RESETLOGS ARCHIVE
LOG
MAXLOGFILES 5
MAXLOGMEMBERS 3
MAXDATAFILES 100
MAXINSTANCES 1
MAXLOGHISTORY 453
LOGFILE
GROUP 1 ( 'F:\ORA92\ORADATA\RMANDUP\REDO01.LOG', 'F:\ORA92\ORADATA\RMANDUP\REDO01-2.LOG' ) SIZE 1228800 ,
GROUP 2 ( 'F:\ORA92\ORADATA\RMANDUP\REDO02.LOG', 'F:\ORA92\ORADATA\RMANDUP\REDO02-2.LOG' ) SIZE 1228800 ,
GROUP 3 ( 'F:\ORA92\ORADATA\RMANDUP\REDO03.LOG', 'F:\ORA92\ORADATA\RMANDUP\REDO03-2.LOG' ) SIZE 1228800
DATAFILE 'F:\ORA92\ORADATA\RMANDUP\SYSTEM01.DBF'
CHARACTER SET WE8MSWIN1252

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 04/17/2003 12:24:14
RMAN-06136: ORACLE error from auxiliary database: ORA-01503: CREATE CONTROLFILE failed
ORA-01504: database name 'RMANDUP' does not match parameter db_name 'RMAN'

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