Login with RMAN immediately fails with ORA-04031, ORA-06508

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Symptoms

Cause

Solution

References

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APPLIES TO:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 10.2 to 12.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

SYMPTOMS

 
$ rman target /

ORACLE error from target database:
ORA-04031: unable to allocate x bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","DBMS_RCVMAN","PL/SQL MPCODE","BAMIMA: Bam Buffer")
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "SYS.DBMS_RCVMAN"
RMAN-00571: ==================================================
RMAN-00569: =========== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ==========
RMAN-00571: ==================================================
RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
RMAN-06429: TARGET database is not compatible with this version of RMAN

CAUSE

 The value for the shared_pool initialization parameter is set too low.

SOLUTION

 Increase the value for the shared_pool initialization parameter then try the login with RMAN again.

REFERENCES

NOTE:1169387.1  - Why ORA-04031 on Shared Pool during RMAN back up even when Large Pool is set?