Oracle DBA, How To, Error, Cause and Action

ORA-00233: copy control file is corrupt or unreadable

ORA-00233: copy control file is corrupt or unreadable




Cause: The specified copy control file was found to be corrupt or unreadable during an invocation of cfileUseCopy.




Action: Before retrying cfileUseCopy, use the ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE command and specify the same filename that was specified for cfileUseCopy.