RMAN-06024: no backup or copy of the control file found to restore

[Arjen Visser]

After a standby database was activated to become the primary database, a new standby database has to be created from the newly activated primary database.

RMAN was used for this with the following commands:
Rman target /
connect auxiliary sys@LIVEDB1_STDBY

run {
allocate auxiliary channel ch1 type disk;
duplicate target database for standby dorecover nofilenamecheck;
release channel ch1;
}

This gave the error:
RMAN-00571: ================================================== =========
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ================================================== =========
RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 05/10/2011 16:12:00
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-06026: some targets not found - aborting restore
RMAN-06024: no backup or copy of the control file found to restore

This corresponds to Rman Duplicate For Standby Failing with Rman-06024 [METALINK DOCID 881674.1]
The solution is to run RMAN without the norecover option

run {
allocate auxiliary channel ch1 type disk;
duplicate target database for standby nofilenamecheck;
release channel ch1;
}

And this works fine.