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Oracle Database – Standard Edition – Version 8.0.6.0 to 12.1.0.1 [Release 8.0.6 to 12.1]
Oracle Database – Enterprise Edition – Version 8.0.6.0 to 12.1.0.1 [Release 8.0.6 to 12.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

PURPOSE

This article provides information about error ORA-1578 and possible actions.

SCOPE

This note is intended for general audience as initial starting point for beginning diagnosis of ORA-1578.

DETAILS

Description

Error ORA-1578 reports a Physical Corruption within a block or a block marked as software corrupt.  Reference Note 840978.1 for Physical Corruption concept.

ORA-1578 – Solution (excludes NOLOGGING case)

• Main article describing corruption issues in different Oracle areas and Solutions:

Note 28814.1 Handling Oracle Block Corruptions in Oracle7/8/8i/9i/10g

Database in ARCHIVELOG mode

• • Repair the Block with RMAN Block Media recovery.  In order to repair a block causing ORA-1578 with Block Media Recovery, the database must be in archivelog mode.

Note 144911.1 RMAN : Block-Level Media Recovery – Concept & Example

 

Note 342972.1 How to perform Block Media Recovery (BMR) when backups are not taken by RMAN

Database in NOARCHIVELOG mode or there is not a valid backup:

• • Identify the segment producing ORA-1578:

NOTE 819533.1 How to identify the corrupt Object reported by ORA-1578 / RMAN / DBVERIFY

 

NOTE 472231.1 How to identify all the Corrupted Objects in the Database reported by RMAN

NOTE 836658.1 Identify the corruption extension using RMAN/DBV/ANALYZE etc. Main sections in Note 836658.1 to identify corrupt blocks causing ORA-1578 are:

RMAN – Identify Datafile Block Corruptions
DBVerify – Identify Datafile Block Corruptions

• • For INDEX segment type consider to recreate the index.

• • Drop the segment and recover it from a different source.  Or use the next options to recover the information from the current segment:

• • For TABLES the corrupt block can be skipped using DBMS_REPAIR and decide to create a new table using “Create Table As Select”:

Note 556733.1 DBMS_REPAIR script
Note 68013.1 DBMS_REPAIR example

• • A Datapump export with ACCESS_METHOD=DIRECT_PATH (default value) may also be used to skip the corrupt block, then the table may be truncated or dropped and imported.
  • Another option is to MOVE the table with “ALTER TABLE MOVE &TABLE_NAME” as the MOVE skips corrupt blocks causing ORA-1578; it is recommended to take a backup (e.g. datapump export before moving the table it).
  • Reference Note 28814.1 for additional cases.

ORA-1578 / ORA-26040 due to NOLOGGING

Error ORA-1578 can also be produced along with error ORA-26040 meaning that the block is corrupt due to a NOLOGGING operation after a recovery.

ORA-1578 / ORA-26040 due to NOLOGGING – SOLUTION

• Reference the next article to fix error ORA-1578 caused by NOLOGGING:

Note 794505.1 ORA-1578 / ORA-26040 Corrupt blocks by NOLOGGING – Error explanation and solution

ORA-1578 due to incorrect wallet in encrypted database

• Reference the next article for ORA-1578 caused by incorrect wallet:

Known Corruption issues caused by 3rd party Software Provider

• Reference the next document for 3rd party known issues causing corruption:

White Paper: Preventing, Detecting, and Repairing Block Corruption: Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture White Paper

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NB	Prob	Bug	Fixed	Description
	III	16776922	12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.0	ORA-1578/ORA-600 block corruption messages on the temporary data blocks
E	I	22228324	12.2.0.0	Enhancement to Avoid Block Memory Corruption being propagated to Disk by Direct Path (prevents future ORA-1578 / adds ORA-600[kcblco_2] )
	II	20437153	12.2.0.0	Unnecessary incident files after ORA-603 following CTRL-C or session kill on Global Temporary Tables
+	–	20144308	12.2.0.0	ORA-27086 or ORA-1182 RMAN May Overwrite a SOURCE Database File during TTS, TSPITR, etc when OMF is used in SOURCE. ORA-1578 ORA-1122 in SOURCE afterwards
	II	18323690	12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.0	ORA-600 [kcbz_blk_decrypt_failed] [2001] / ORA-1578. Logical Corrupt undo block code 2001 when decryption with incorrect wallet. Error message changed
	II	18252487	12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.0	ORA-1578 for an encrypted block (TDE) after master REKEY of incorrect wallet. Error message changed
E	I	17511071	12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.0	Datapump expdp silently skips corrupt block that produce ORA-1578 – This fix prints a warning message in export log when the corupt block is the first block
	II	17210525	12.2.0.0	ORA-1 on SYS.I_PLSCOPE_SIG_IDENTIFIER$ / ORA-600 [kqlidchg0] / ORA-1578 in SYSTEM or SYSAUX Tablespaces
	IIII	17437634	11.2.0.3.9, 11.2.0.3.BP22, 11.2.0.4.2, 11.2.0.4.BP03, 12.1.0.1.3, 12.1.0.2	ORA-1578 or ORA-600 [6856] transient in-memory corruption on TEMP segment during transaction recovery / ROLLBACK (eg: after Ctrl-C)
	I	20658524		A query using direct read may fail with ORA-1578 ORA-26040 due to former corrupt block version
	II	14828059	11.2.0.3.BP15, 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.1	Wrong Results / False ORA-1578 in SuperCluster
	III	13804294	11.2.0.3.4, 11.2.0.3.BP07, 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.1	Internal errors, corruptions, using pipelined function whose rows raise exceptions
P	I	12330911	12.1.0.1	EXADATA LSI firmware for lost writes
	I	11707302	11.2.0.2.3, 11.2.0.2.BP06, 11.2.0.3, 12.1.0.1	Corruption from ASM crash during rebalance diskgroup. Misplaced Blocks
	II	11659016	11.2.0.3, 12.1.0.1	ORA-1578 against recently create tablespace that once was encrypted
+	II	10209232	11.1.0.7.7, 11.2.0.1.BP08, 11.2.0.2.1, 11.2.0.2.BP02, 11.2.0.2.GIBUNDLE01, 11.2.0.3, 12.1.0.1	ORA-1578 / ORA-600 [3020] Corruption. Misplaced Blocks and Lost Write in ASM
*	III	10205230	11.2.0.1.6, 11.2.0.1.BP09, 11.2.0.2.2, 11.2.0.2.BP04, 11.2.0.3, 12.1.0.1	ORA-600 / corruption possible during shutdown in RAC
	I	9965085	11.2.0.3, 12.1.0.1	ORA-1578 / ORA-8103 Temporary table block corruption / space wastage from PDML – superseded
	III	9739664	11.2.0.2, 12.1.0.1	ORA-1578 / ORA-26040 MANUAL RECOVER marks block as corrupt NOLOGGING in even if LOGGING is enabled
+	III	9724970	11.2.0.1.BP08, 11.2.0.2.2, 11.2.0.2.BP02, 11.2.0.3, 12.1.0.1	Block Corruption with PDML UPDATE. ORA_600 [4511] OERI[kdblkcheckerror] by block check
	II	9407198	11.2.0.3, 12.1.0.1	“LOG ERRORS INTO” can cause ORA-600 [kcb***] or hang scenarios
*	II	9406607	11.2.0.1.3, 11.2.0.1.BP06, 11.2.0.2, 12.1.0.1	Corrupt blocks in 11.2 in table with unique key. OERI[kdBlkCheckError] by block check
*	III	8943287	11.2.0.2, 12.1.0.1	ORA-1578 corrupt block with AUTH SQL*Net strings
*	III	8898852	11.1.0.7.2, 11.2.0.1.1, 11.2.0.1.BP04, 11.2.0.2, 12.1.0.1	ORA-1578 Blocks misplaced in ASM when file created with compatible.asm < 11 and resized
	III	8885304	11.2.0.2, 12.1.0.1	ORA-7445 [ktu_format_nr] during RMAN CONVERT or Corrupt fractured block of UNDO tablespace datafile
*	III	8768374	10.2.0.5, 11.1.0.7.8, 11.2.0.1.BP11, 11.2.0.2, 12.1.0.1	RFS in Standby with a wrong location for archived log corrupting/overwriting database files when max_connections > 1
E	II	8760225	11.2.0.2, 12.1.0.1	Auto Block Media Recovery reports ORA-1578 on first query
	II	8731617	11.2.0.3, 12.1.0.1	ORA-1578 from DESCRIBE or CTAS even if table not accessed / ORA-959 from DBMS_STATS
E	II	8720802	10.2.0.5, 11.2.0.1.BP07, 11.2.0.2, 12.1.0.1	Add check for row piece pointing to itself (db_block_checking,dbv,rman,analyze)
E	II	8493978	11.2.0.2, 12.1.0.1	Reserve file descriptors for datafile access
	II	10025963	11.2.0.1.BP09, 11.2.0.2	Block corruption of LOB blocks with checksum value but block has checksum disabled
	II	8714541	11.2.0.2	ORA-1578 Corrupt Block in ASM with 0xbadfda7a after ASM block repair due to disk read error when ASM mirror is used
	I	13101288		ORA-600, corruption or check errors dropping a column in a OLTP compressed table
+	–	8354682	11.2.0.1	ORA-1578 – Blocks can be misplaced in ASM when there is IO error and AU > 1MB
+	III	8339404	10.2.0.5, 11.1.0.7.1, 11.2.0.1	ORA-1578 – Blocks can be misplaced in ASM during a REBALANCE
	–	8227257	11.2.0.1	ORA-1578 corruption found after media recovery on encrypted datafile
E	II	7396077	10.2.0.5, 11.2.0.1	RMAN does not differentiate NOLOGGING corrupt blocks that produce ORA-1578/ORA-26040
	–	6471351	10.2.0.5, 11.1.0.7, 11.2.0.1	ORA-1578 / ORA-26040 due to NOLOGGING after recovery despite of FORCE LOGGING
	II	6674196	10.2.0.4, 10.2.0.5, 11.1.0.6	OERI / buffer cache corruption using ASM, OCFS or any ksfd client like ODM
	–	5515492	10.2.0.3, 11.1.0.6	ORA-1578 corruption with Block Misplaced during ASM rebalance after IO error
E	–	5031712	10.2.0.4, 11.1.0.6	DBV enhanced to report NOLOGGING corrupt blocks with DBV-201 instead of DBV-200
+	–	4724358	11.1.0.6	ORA-27045 ORA-1578 ORA-27047 corruption caused by DBMS_LDAP
	–	4684074	10.2.0.2, 11.1.0.6	OERI:510 / block corruption (ORA-1578) with DB_BLOCK_CHECKING
	–	4655520	10.2.0.3, 11.1.0.6, 9.2.0.8	Block corrupted during write not noticed
	–	4411228	9.2.0.8, 10.2.0.3, 11.1.0.6	ORA-1578 Block misplaced with mixture of file system and RAW files
	II	4344935	10.2.0.4, 11.1.0.6	OERI from DML on TEMPORARY TABLE after autonomous TRUNCATE
	II	7381632	11.1.0.6	ORA-1578 Free corrupt blocks may not be reformatted when Flashback is enabled
	–	8976928	10.2.0.5	ORA-1578 caused by a former free corrupt block and remains unformatted
	I	8684999	10.2.0.5	ORA-1578 caused by a former free corrupt block and remains unformatted
+	–	3544995	9.2.0.6, 10.1.0.3, 10.2.0.1	LOB segments with “CACHE READS” generate no REDO even with the logging option
+	–	1281962	9.2.0.1	Media recovery after ORA-1578 on rollback can cause logical inconsistency
	–	589855	7.3.3.6, 7.3.4.1	ORA:1578 or ORA:8103 selecting invalid ROWID
	–	406863	7.3.3.4, 7.3.4.0, 8.0.3.0	ORA-1578 using PQ with heavy simultaneous INSERTS
P	–	707304	7.3.4.4	AIX: Resizing RAW datafile can corrupt a DB block
	–	603502	7.3.4.3, 8.0.4.4, 8.0.5.0	Possible Corruption if a session with LOOPBACK DB Links aborts.