ORA-16179: incremental changes to “log_archive_dest_1” not allowed with SPFILE

You might encounter ORA-16179 error during updating the archive log destination.

Error Details:

SQL> alter system set log_archive_dest_1='/u01/app/oracle/arch';
alter system set log_archive_dest_1='/u01/app/oracle/arch'
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-32017: failure in updating SPFILE
ORA-16179: incremental changes to "log_archive_dest_1" not allowed with SPFILE

Solution:

SQL> alter system set log_archive_dest_1='LOCATION=/u01/app/oracle/arch';

System altered.