13.3 EM - Fleet Maintenance Job Failing with sed: illegal option -- i (Doc ID 2463774.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

When updating the GI home using Fleet maintenance, the Job Step called "Switch Clusterware Instance" is showing the following error: 

The job step fails although the updated checkpoint says successfully.

This issue was reported on Solaris x86_64 platform only.

To illustrate the problem, below is a snippet extracted from Job Step Log for Job: Switch Clusterware Instance

|____________________ FUNCTION CALL END gridupdate::skip_this_function |_______________________________________________|

File <PATH>/oracle/grid/12.1.0.2/gi_2/crs/utl/crsconfig_dirs not found.Trying with hostname
File <PATH>/oracle/grid/12.1.0.2/gi_2/crs/utl/sgdld07sp443/crsconfig_dirs found.
2018-08-17 13:53:41: Executing sed -i 's=<PATH>/oracle/grid/12.1.0.2/gi_2=<PATH>/product/12.1.0.2/gi_1=g' /var/tmp/2095010013303310/2095026255949160/crsconfig_dirs
2018-08-17 13:53:41: Executing cmd: sed -i 's=<PATH>/oracle/grid/12.1.0.2/gi_2=<PATH>/product/12.1.0.2/gi_1=g' /var/tmp/2095010013303310/2095026255949160/crsconfig_dirs
sed: illegal option -- i

|******************** BEGIN FUNCTION CALL gridupdate::update_check_point_file ******************************************|
Function call: gridupdate::update_check_point_file ("CLEAR_CONFIG" ,"/var/tmp/2095010013303310/2095026255949160/" ,"FAILED")
|***********************************************************************************************************************|

Updating checkpoint...
2018-08-17 13:53:41: Executing sed -i 's=CLEAR_CONFIG:NOT_EXECUTED=CLEAR_CONFIG:FAILED=g' /var/tmp/2095010013303310/2095026255949160/check_point_file
2018-08-17 13:53:41: Executing cmd: sed -i 's=CLEAR_CONFIG:NOT_EXECUTED=CLEAR_CONFIG:FAILED=g' /var/tmp/2095010013303310/2095026255949160/check_point_file
sed: illegal option -- i
Updated checkpoint successfully.

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

Cause

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