I was configuring an Oracle Data Guard 19c database, and when I tried to start the database, I received the following error: After some analysis, I concluded that the error was the “*.db_recovery_file_dest” parameter configured in the database. When you use a location on ASM, it is only necessary to specify the name of the disk group and not the directories inside the disk group. Knowing that I configured the parameter from : To: After the modification the pfile had the output below: Consequently, the startup worked after that: brunorsHi!…