Oracle down: ORA-00600: internal error code

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 16.02

Description:
Fifteen minutes after we restarted ALEPH/Oracle, Oracle has gone down. We see these messages in the Oracle alert log:

Errors in file /exlibris/app/oracle/admin/aleph00/bdump/aleph00_dbw0_14979.trc:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kslawe:!pwq], ,
[], [], [], []
Thu Feb 15 18:09:22 2007
Errors in file /exlibris/app/oracle/admin/aleph00/bdump/aleph00_dbw0_14979.trc:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kslawe:!pwq],
,
[], [], [], []
Thu Feb 15 18:09:22 2007
DBW0: terminating instance due to error 600
Thu Feb 15 18:09:22 2007
Errors in file /exlibris/app/oracle/admin/aleph00/bdump/aleph00_pmon_14977.trc:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
Thu Feb 15 18:09:23 2007
Errors in file /exlibris/app/oracle/admin/aleph00/bdump/aleph00_lgwr_14982.trc:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
Instance terminated by DBW0, pid = 14979

Resolution:
When we restarted Oracle again, we did not get these errors.