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13c: Updating Agent Using Gold Image/Agent Clone on Solaris Fails With Error: Unrecognized VM option 'UseLinuxPosixThreadCPUClocks' (Doc ID 2708119.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 18, 2022

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager Base Platform - Version 13.3.0.0.0 and later
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)

Symptoms

Updating agent using Gold Image or Agent Clone fails on Solaris with the error:

<AGENT_HOME>/cfgtoollogs/agentDeploy/agentDeploy_<Timestamp>.log

INFO: Agent properties read from file :<AGENT_HOME>/sysman/install/agentconfig.properties
INFO: Executing command:<AGENT_BASE_DIR>/agent_inst/bin/emctl setproperty agent -name agentBaseDir -value <AGENT_BASE_DIR>
INFO: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 3
INFO: Copyright (c) 1996, 2018 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
INFO: Unrecognized VM option 'UseLinuxPosixThreadCPUClocks'
INFO: Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
INFO: Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
INFO: Plugin homes:
INFO: Plugin homes:
SEVERE: STDERR:

Unrecognized VM option 'UseLinuxPosixThreadCPUClocks'
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
STDOUT=

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 3
Copyright (c) 1996, 2018 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
INFO: emctl setproperty agent command has failed.
INFO: Agent configuration has failed

 

NOTE: This issue is not observed during the fresh install. It impacts only GI Update or Agent Clone

Cause

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