Friday, February 25, 2011

ORA-27047: Unable to read the header block of file

We were performing 11i cloning but unfortunately the adcfgclone.pl failed on target while controlfile creation with the following error

  • Creating the control file may report error ORA-27047 when OS block header is invalid for a particular datafile:
ORA-27047 : unable to read the header block of file.
Example taken from HPUX:
ORA-1503: CREATE CONTROLFILE failed
ORA-1565: error in identifying file '/oradata/users.dbf'
ORA-27047: unable to read the header block of file
HP-UX Error: 22: Invalid argument
Additional information: 2

  • DBVerify does not report a corruption in the datafile.

Cause

OS block in the datafile is corrupted.

  • The corruption is identified by the Oracle utility dbfsize:
$ dbfsize /oradata/users.dbf
Header block magic number is bad
For complete information follow metalink note ref: 360032.1

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