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Segmentation Fault During Import (Doc ID 955568.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 01, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.8 and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Problem Statement:
Segmentation fault during import

Errors appearing on screen only:

import done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
import server uses WE8ISO8859P1 character set (possible charset conversion)
IMP-00046: using FILESIZE value from export file of 1073741824
. importing OPS$ORACLE's objects into SYSTEM
. importing <SCHEMA_NAME>'s objects into <SCHEMA_NAME>
. . importing table "<TABLE_NAME1>" 8 rows imported
. . importing table "<TABLE_NAME2>" 2850169 rows imported
---->
. . importing table "<TABLE_NAME3>" 2 rows imported
. . importing table "<TABLE_NAME4>" Segmentation fault(coredump)  <<<


The error happens at the same table every time.  It can also happen at the very beginning.  Typically, no errors will be seen in the import log or the alert log.

Steps To Reproduce:
Import

Changes

None

Cause

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