How to fix the Oracle error ORA-15123: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid incarnation number?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-15123: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid incarnation number with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-15123: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid incarnation number

Reason for the Error ORA-15123: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid incarnation number

A numeric file name was specified which did not contain a valid ASM incarnation number. The ASM incarnation number follows immediately after the ASM file number. It must be preceeded by a ‘.’ character, and contain only numeric characters.

How to fix the Error ORA-15123: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid incarnation number ?

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

Correct the file name specification.