How to solve ORA-01187: cannot read from file because it failed verification tests

After a successful clone, alert log reports:

022-06-30T04:04:17.542368+02:00
Errors in file /orainst/oracle/diag/rdbms/testdb01/testdb01/trace/testdb01_dbw0_130154.trc:
ORA-01186: file 201 failed verification tests
ORA-01122: database file 201 failed verification check
ORA-01110: data file 201: '/data/oradata/testdb01/temp01.dbf'
ORA-01203: wrong incarnation of this file - wrong creation SCN
File 201 not verified due to error ORA-01122

Any operation you try against the database will give the following error stack in return:

ORA-01187: cannot read from file  because it failed verification tests
ORA-01110: data file 201: '/data/oradata/testdb01/temp01.dbf'
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_LOB", line 741
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_DATAPUMP", line 5420
ORA-06512: at line 1

Check tempfile situation:

SYS@testdb01>SQL>select ts#,status,enabled, name from v$tempfile;

       TS# STATUS  ENABLED    NAME
---------- ------- ---------- ---------------------------------
         3 ONLINE  READ WRITE /data/oradata/testdb01/temp01.dbf
         3 ONLINE  READ WRITE /data/oradata/testdb01/temp02.dbf

A query against dba_temp_files however, will give an error:

SYS@testdb01>SQL>SELECT tablespace_name, file_name  FROM dba_temp_files WHERE tablespace_name = 'TEMP';
SELECT tablespace_name, file_name  FROM dba_temp_files WHERE tablespace_name = 'TEMP'
                                        *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01187: cannot read from file  because it failed verification tests
ORA-01110: data file 201: '/data/oradata/testdb01/temp01.dbf'

Is the temporary tablespace database default?

SYS@testdb01>SQL>
col property_value format a30
SELECT PROPERTY_VALUE   
FROM DATABASE_PROPERTIES 
WHERE PROPERTY_NAME = 'DEFAULT_TEMP_TABLESPACE';

PROPERTY_VALUE
-----------------------
TEMP

Yes it is, so we cannot drop it, but will have to add new files and drop the old ones

Add new tempfile:

SYS@testdb01>SQL>ALTER TABLESPACE temp ADD TEMPFILE '/data/oradata/testdb01/temp.dbf' size 256M;

Tablespace altered.

Drop the old ones:

SYS@testdb01>SQL>ALTER DATABASE TEMPFILE '/data/oradata/testdb01/temp01.dbf' DROP INCLUDING DATAFILES;

Database altered.

SYS@testdb01>SQL>ALTER DATABASE TEMPFILE '/data/oradata/testdb01/temp02.dbf' DROP INCLUDING DATAFILES;

Database altered.

Both of the old datafiles are now gone from the data dictionary:

SYS@pserser4>SQL>
set lines 200
col tablespace_name format a20
col file_name format a50
SELECT tablespace_name, file_name  FROM dba_temp_files WHERE tablespace_name = 'TEMP';

TABLESPACE_NAME         FILE_NAME
---------------------   --------------------------------------
TEMP                    /data/oradata/testdb01/temp.dbf

Note that the old tempfiles are still on disk:

SYS@testdb01>SQL>!ls -la /data/oradata/testdb01/temp01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 114302976 Jun 30 04:04 /data/oradata/testdb01/temp01.dbf

If you want to add the old datafiles back to your temp tablespace you can do this with the REUSE keyword:

SYS@testdb01>SQL>ALTER TABLESPACE temp ADD TEMPFILE '/data/oradata/testdb01/temp01.dbf' size 256M reuse;

Tablespace altered.

In my case, the other tempfile /data/oradata/testdb01/temp02.dbf, was not present physically on disk.
The alert log confirms this:

2022-06-30T04:04:18.302852+02:00
Errors in file /data/oracle/diag/rdbms/testdb01/testdb01/trace/testdb01_dbw0_130154.trc:
ORA-01157: cannot identify/lock data file 202 - see DBWR trace file
ORA-01110: data file 202: '/data/oradata/testdb01/temp02.dbf'
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:4 Failed to open file /data/oradata/testdb01/temp02.dbf
ORA-17500: ODM err:File does not exist