How to fix the Oracle error ORA-28281: Global application context is not updated on one or more Oracle RAC instances?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-28281: Global application context is not updated on one or more Oracle RAC instances with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-28281: Global application context is not updated on one or more Oracle RAC instances

Reason for the Error ORA-28281: Global application context is not updated on one or more Oracle RAC instances

While updating global application context across Oracle RAC instances, the background process errored out or the timeout expired due to some failure.

How to fix the Error ORA-28281: Global application context is not updated on one or more Oracle RAC instances ?

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

Ensure every instance in Oracle RAC is operational and retry the operation.