LGWR: Primary database is in MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY mode | ORA-16072: a minimum of one standby database destination is required

Problem:

One of our customer cloned database from a DG environment to a different host and tried to open it as a standalone database. Controlfile and datafiles still considered the database in maximum availability mode.

Errors after trying to open the database:

LGWR: Primary database is in MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY mode
LGWR: Destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 is not serviced by LGWR
LGWR: Minimum of 1 LGWR standby database required
Thu Jul 18 18:43:14 2019
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl2/trace/orcl2_lgwr_39735_39805.trc:
ORA-16072: a minimum of one standby database destination is required

Solution:

SQL> startup mount;
SQL> alter database set standby database to maximize performance;
SQL> shutdown immediate;

$ srvctl start database -d orcl