How to fix the error ORA-00239: timeout waiting for control file enqueue: held by ‘string’ for more than string seconds?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-00239: timeout waiting for control file enqueue: held by ‘string’ for more than string seconds with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-00239: timeout waiting for control file enqueue: held by ‘string’ for more than string seconds

Reason for the Error ORA-00239: timeout waiting for control file enqueue: held by ‘string’ for more than string seconds

The specified process waited the maximum allowed time for the control file enqueue.

How to fix the Error ORA-00239: timeout waiting for control file enqueue: held by ‘string’ for more than string seconds ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Restart the blocking instance indicated in the incident trace file or reboot the blocking node.