ORA-01008: not all variables bound while doing RMAN backup

Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Tue Jan 17 15:00:22 2012

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RMAN>

connected to target database: MADM (DBID=xvxvxvxv)

RMAN>

connected to recovery catalog database

RMAN> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> 7> 8> 9>

DBGSQL:     TARGET> select  nvl(max(al.recid), '0'),nvl(max(al.recid), 0)   into  :txtparmvalue, :parmvalue   from  v$archived_log al  where  al.status in ('X', 'A')    and  al.is_recovery_dest_file = 'YES'    and  al.creator = 'RMAN'

DBGSQL:        sqlcode = 1008

allocated channel: t1

channel t1: SID=1726 device type=SBT_TAPE

channel t1: Veritas NetBackup for Oracle - Release 6.5 (2009050106)

DBGSQL:     TARGET> select  nvl(max(al.recid), '0'),nvl(max(al.recid), 0)   into  :txtparmvalue, :parmvalue   from  v$archived_log al  where  al.status in ('X', 'A')    and  al.is_recovery_dest_file = 'YES'    and  al.creator = 'RMAN'

DBGSQL:        sqlcode = 1008

released channel: t1

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================

RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================

RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 01/17/2012 15:00:36

RMAN-03014: implicit resync of recovery catalog failed

ORA-01008: not all variables bound

RMAN>

Recovery Manager complete.

I noticed that resync catalog or crosscheck archivelog all did not help in this case and this error appears due to a BUG in 11.2.0.2. You can read more about this issue at Oracle Metalink doc ID: 1280447.1

Current fix is to flush shared_pool and you will be able to start rman backup again.

SQL> alter system flush shared_pool;