ORA-600 [16480], [201] Followed by ORA-569 in One Instance of a RAC Database

(Doc ID 603650.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4 [Release 10.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 11-Nov-2013***
This has not been reported in 11g but the same could apply there.

Symptoms

In one instance of a RAC database the following errors are reported:

    ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [16480], [201], [0x3BE751F30], [], [], [], [], []
    ORA-00569: Failed to acquire global enqueue. 

In another instance, just before the above errors shared pool problems are reported, e.g.:

    WARNING: ran out of shared pool for GES enqueue object.

This may be followed by ORA-4031 shared pool related errors.

Cause

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