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ORA-00600: [2103] terminates the instance after a drop tablespace command (Doc ID 456346.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 30, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.4 and later
z*OBSOLETE: Microsoft Windows 2000

Symptoms

You executed a "drop tablespace" statement that failed with ORA-01259, ORA-27056, and OSD-04024 due to O/S-Error: (OS 32) The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Eventually, DBWR crashed the database due to ORA-600: arguments [2103]

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Cause

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