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A method to fix a corrupted SPFILE in ASM

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So you’ve made some changes to your SPFILE, and since the parameters you want change cannot be made to a running instance, you used the scope=spfile clause.

Now you go to restart your database, and you find the instance won’t start!

[oracle@sio01-mgmt sql]$ srvctl start database -d dbbench
PRCR-1079 : Failed to start resource ora.dbbench.db
CRS-5017: The resource action "ora.dbbench.db start" encountered the following error:
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
. For details refer to "(:CLSN00107:)" in "/u01/app/oracle/diag/crs/sio02-mgmt/crs/trace/crsd_oraagent_oracle.trc".

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