Jason, Look in dba_temp_files, the status may be offline. I do not totally understand how a tablespace can be online when all of it's data files are offline, but it can be done. Go figure. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason Khym Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:27 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Export error in 10.2.0.4 database stating temp tablespace is offline but it's not My apologies for not including the tablespace information. Tablespace is a true temporary tablespace . It is a Locally Managed Tablespace. I also forgot to mention that this problem started after our database server paniced due to a null pointer condition in the driver for our encrypted volumes(we use a Voremtric solution for encrypting data at rest). Since we were in a VCS cluster the service grop failover to the secondary node. Oracle did crash recovery on the secondary node and opened without errors. Well except this error in the exp started afterwards. 1* select * from dba_tablespaces where tablespace_name='TEMP' SQL> / TABLESPACE_NAME BLOCK_SIZE INITIAL_EXTENT NEXT_EXTENT MIN_EXTENTS MAX_EXTENTS ------------------------------ ---------- -------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- PCT_INCREASE MIN_EXTLEN STATUS CONTENTS LOGGING FOR EXTENT_MAN ALLOCATIO PLU SEGMEN DEF_TAB_ ------------ ---------- --------- --------- --------- --- ---------- --------- --- ------ -------- RETENTION BIG ----------- --- TEMP 32768 1048576 1048576 1 0 1048576 ONLINE TEMPORARY NOLOGGING NO LOCAL UNIFORM NO MANUAL DISABLED NOT APPLY NO