How to fix the Oracle error ORA-01172: recovery of thread string stuck at block string of file string?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-01172: recovery of thread string stuck at block string of file string with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-01172: recovery of thread string stuck at block string of file string

Reason for the Error ORA-01172: recovery of thread string stuck at block string of file string

Crash recovery or instance recovery could not apply a change to a block because it was not the next change. This can happen if the block was corrupted and then repaired during recovery.

How to fix the Error ORA-01172: recovery of thread string stuck at block string of file string ?

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

Do a RECOVER DATAFILE for the file containing the block. If this does not resolve the problem then restore the file from a backup and recover it.