[INS-20802] Creating Container Database for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Management Repository failed
Posted by Kamran Agayev A. on July 24th, 2017
After dealing with root.sh script to configure 3 node clusterware environment I succeeded but ended up with the following error when post configuration OUI returned the following error and was unable to create container database for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Management Repository:
There was no information in the mentioned log file, however the trace of database creation job was enabled and I was able to find a long trace file under the log directory, where I saw the following message:
set newname for datafile 1 to new;
set newname for datafile 3 to new;
set newname for datafile 4 to new;
restore datafile 1;
restore datafile 3;
restore datafile 4; }
[Thread-159] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.299 EDT ] [RMANEngine.executeImpl:1321] Notify reader to start reading
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.300 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=echo set off
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.300 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.305 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=RMAN> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9> 10> 11> 12> 13>
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.305 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=executing command: SET NEWNAME
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.546 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.547 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=executing command: SET NEWNAME
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.562 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.563 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=executing command: SET NEWNAME
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.578 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.585 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=Starting restore at 24-JUL-17
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.792 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=allocated channel: ORA_DISK_1
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:07.797 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=channel ORA_DISK_1: SID=18 device type=DISK
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:08.051 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:08.383 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile backup set restore
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:08.385 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from backup set
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:08.386 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=channel ORA_DISK_1: restoring datafile 00001 to +DATA
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:08.387 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid/assistants/dbca/templates/MGMTSeed_Database.dfb
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.487 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.487 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.487 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.487 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 07/24/2017 04:24:23
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.487 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=ORA-19870: error while restoring backup piece /u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid/assistants/dbca/templates/MGMTSeed_Database.dfb
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.487 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=ORA-19872: Unexpected end of file at block 4800 while decompressing backup piece /u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid/assistants/dbca/templates/MGMTSeed_Database.dfb
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.495 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.496 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=RMAN>
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.496 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=echo set on
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.504 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:988] Log RMAN Output=set echo off;
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.504 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:1031] hasError is true
[Thread-177] [ 2017-07-24 04:24:23.504 EDT ] [RMANEngine.readSqlOutput:1037] ERROR TRACE DETECTED
So in ordreate a container database, the installer was trying to restore the database and was unable to do it and hit the following error:
ORA-19872: Unexpected end of file at block 4800 while decompressing backup piece /u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid/assistants/dbca/templates/MGMTSeed_Database.dfb
So the problem was with the backup piece of the MGMT database. Permission were ok, so I compared the size of the restored backup piece with the one in the downloaded zip file:
[root@oratest01 ~]# cd /u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid/assistants/dbca/templates/
[root@oratest01 templates]# ll
total 131452
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 5734 Jan 26 10:48 DomainServicesCluster_GIMR.dbc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 18628608 Jan 26 10:46 MGMTSeed_Database.ctl
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 5177 Jan 26 10:48 MGMTSeed_Database.dbc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 39321600 Jan 26 10:46 MGMTSeed_Database.dfb
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 10578 Jun 10 2016 New_Database.dbt
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 76619776 Jan 26 10:11 pdbseed.dfb
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 6579 Jan 26 10:11 pdbseed.xml
It was 39M in the extracted folder, and 104Mb in the zip file itself. 
Somehow it was not correctly unzipped. I moved all files to the backup folder, uploaded backup pieces from the downloaded installation zip file to the same folder in the first node and restarted the configuration – and it succeeded.
Good Luck!