Database Upgrade to Oracle 10g Rel. 2 fails with ORA-07445 [joe_debug_print_stack_trace_internal()+136] (Doc ID 462602.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3 [Release 9.2 to 10.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 02-Mar-2012***

Symptoms

Upgrading a version 9.2 database to release 10.2 using DBUA may fail with ORA-3113.
Alert log will confirm ORA-7445

Wed Oct 10 23:14:14 2007 
Errors in file <full path and file name>.trc: 
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [joe_debug_print_stack_trace_internal()+136] [SIGSEGV] [Address not mapped to object] [0x20000194A] [] []

According to the upgrade log, the last statement before the error was:

EXECUTE xdk_drop_package('oracle/xml/io'); 
BEGIN xdk_drop_package('oracle/xml/io'); END; 
* 
ERROR at line 1: 
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

TRACE FILE

ksedmp: internal or fatal error 
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump 
[joe_debug_print_stack_trace_internal()+136] [SIGSEGV] [Address not mapped to 
object] [0x20000194A] [] [] 
Current SQL statement for this session: 
SELECT DBMS_JAVA.LONGNAME(OBJECT_NAME) CLASS_NAME FROM ALL_OBJECTS WHERE 
OBJECT_TYPE = 'JAVA CLASS' AND DBMS_JAVA.LONGNAME(OBJECT_NAME) LIKE '%' || :B1 | 
| '%' 
----- PL/SQL Call Stack ----- 
object line object 
handle number name 
390229770 7 procedure SYS.XDK_DROP_PACKAGE 
38fc63968 1 anonymous block

Call Stack Trace 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
joe_debug_print_stack_trace_internal 
joe_debug_print_stack_trace_with_exception 
eox_uncaught 
joet_aux_thread_main 
seoa_note_stack_outside 
...