OCI - Database Upgrade Precheck Failed With Error DCS-10329:Failed to delete database home with id (Doc ID 2783716.1)

Last updated on JUNE 06, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Database pre-upgrade operation failed with error: \"DCS-10329:Failed to delete database home with id : <home id>. \". Please contact Oracle support with the work request ID <work request ID>.

You will see the below error in /u01/app/oraInventory/logs/deinstall_deconfig<date>.err file.

$cat /u01/app/oraInventory/logs/deinstall_deconfig2021-06-05_07-47-45-AM.err

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at oracle.install.db.deinstall.wrapper.Deinstall.callCleanImpl(Deinstall.java:1876)
at oracle.install.db.deinstall.wrapper.Deinstall.main(Deinstall.java:907)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/rat/tfa/util/ManageTfa                                       <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 
at oracle.install.db.deinstall.core.PrepForOUIDeinstall.cleanConfig(PrepForOUIDeinstall.java:187)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.rat.tfa.util.ManageTfa
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:355)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)

and dbcli list-dbhomes output status column shows deleting against impacted home

# dbcli list-dbhomes

ID                    Name                             DB Version            Home Location                                                        Status
---------------   -------------------------    -------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------
<DB HOME ID> OraDB11204_home1 11.2.0.4.200714      /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/dbhome_1              Configured
<DB HOME ID> OraDB19000_home2 19.11                     /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0.0/dbhome_2               Deleting 

Cause

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