Fleet Maintenance Error In Step: Switch Clusterware Instance: Error in executing pre patch scripts exit status is :255 (Doc ID 2443087.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Applies to:

Symptoms

Trying to deploy a a Fleet Deployment image (grid and db) produces an error as follows:

2018-06-06 16:57:46: Executing cmd: <GRID_HOME>/perl/bin/perl
-I<GRID_HOME>/perl/lib -I<GRID_HOME>/perl/lib
<GRID_HOME>/crs/install/rootcrs.pl -prepatch -dstcrshome
<GRID_HOME>
Using configuration parameter file:
<GRID_HOME>/crs/install/crsconfig_params
Died at <GRID_HOME>/crs/install/crsutils.pm line 3913.

|******************** BEGIN FUNCTION CALL gridupdate::update_check_point_file
******************************************|
Function call: gridupdate::update_check_point_file ("PREPATCH"
,"/tmp/108975528052794//108975614454551/" ,"FAILED")
|*****************************************************************************
******************************************|

Updating checkpoint...
2018-06-06 16:58:03: Executing sed -i
's=PREPATCH:NOT_EXECUTED=PREPATCH:FAILED=g'
/tmp/108975528052794/108975614454551/check_point_file
2018-06-06 16:58:03: Executing cmd: sed -i
's=PREPATCH:NOT_EXECUTED=PREPATCH:FAILED=g'
/tmp/108975528052794/108975614454551/check_point_file
sed: illegal option -- i
Updated checkpoint successfully.

|____________________ FUNCTION CALL END gridupdate::update_check_point_file
|__________________________________________|

|____________________ FUNCTION CALL END gridupdate::runPrePatchRootScript
|____________________________________________|

Error in executing pre patch scripts
exit status is :255
exit status is 255

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Cause

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