ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel


ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
Cause: The connection between Client and Server process was broken.
Action: There was a communication error that requires further investigation. First, check for network problems and review the SQL*Net setup. Also, look in the alert.log file for any errors. Finally, test to see whether the server process is dead and whether a trace file was generated at failure time.

Reference: Oracle Documentation

"ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel" is a generic exception, it say that an established connection has been lost. ORA-3113 means that the oracle server process has suddenly killed or died due to some reason. ORA-03113 is a "catch-all" exception and there are many possible reasons of ORA-03113.

Usually ORA-03113 is a stack of oracle error messages issued. The ORA-03113 exception may not itself indicate the actual error and is accompanied with other errors which will help us to debug the actual issue.

Common reason of ORA-03113:
- Session has been killed
- Oracle internal errors
- Process has been aborted
- Network related issues
- Connection Pool related problem
- Oracle Database is crashed
- Database Server Machine is crashed

To debug ORA-03113 we need to look at any other exception messages on error message stack accompanied with ORA-03113. Also we should look in alert log to determine event happened when ORA-03113 was raised by the database. We can also check trace files that may have been generated for ORA-03113 exception.


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3 comments:

  1. Can we do something, some kind of pre-check to avoid this? We face this in our installer and would like to avoid in between occurrence of this.

    Anupam Mazumdar

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    1. There are 2 main reasons for frequent Ora-03113. 1) Network 2) Invalid Connections in Connection Pool. if you are facing this frequently and are using connection pooling, try making static connections. You can not do much about on rest of the reasons as a developer.

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