EM 12c, 13c: Agent Crashing Because Of Zombie Process, "Bouncing the agent due to zombies" Reported in gcagent.log (Doc ID 1468586.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager Base Platform - Version 12.1.0.1.0 and later
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Linux x86-64

The Enterprise Manager (EM) 12c Cloud Control Agent restarts itself due to 'Bouncing the agent due to zombies'

/AGENT_INST/sysman/log/gcagent.log reports following exception

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