Stale map files found in /etc/oracle/maps. You may need to remove this stale map files to avoid the cluster start up issues. (Doc ID 2685420.1)

Last updated on JULY 27, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

 + During platinum patching, precheck.sh script may report below precheck issue for Grid Infrastructure Patching:

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2020-Feb-13 13:23:23 UTC [FAIL] *** <Node1>: Stale map files found in /etc/oracle/maps , You may need to remove this stale map files to avoid the cluster start up issues - Refer the confluence page for more details

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+ Problem is reported only for Node1 ; Node2 was fine.

+ Node had image activated at below date/time and as part of same, server rebooted as well:

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[root@node1]# imageinfo -all

Kernel version: 4.1.12-124.24.3.el6uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Mon Jan 14 15:08:09 PST 2019 x86_64
Image kernel version: 4.1.12-124.24.3.el6uek
Image version: 18.1.15.0.0.190510
Image created: 2019-05-10 15:37:37 -0700
Image activated: 2019-06-15 03:26:59 +1000 <<----------------
Image image type: production
Image status: success
Image label: OSS_18.1.15.0.0_LINUX.X64_190510
Node type: COMPUTE
System partition on device: /dev/mapper/VGExaDb-LVDbSys1
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[root@node1-mgmt bin]# who -b
system boot 2019-06-15 08:11
[root@node1-mgmt bin]#

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+ Last GI startup date was also on 2019-06-15

+ There are some old stale map files located on VM1 which age back to time before ohasd/GI stack startup-time

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[root@node1]# grep -i CRS-1301 -A 3 -B 3 alert.log|tail
2019-06-15 03:34:33.504 [CSSDMONITOR(83447)]CRS-8500: Oracle Clusterware CSSDMONITOR process is starting with operating system process ID 83447
2019-06-15 03:34:33.545 [CSSDAGENT(83445)]CRS-8500: Oracle Clusterware CSSDAGENT process is starting with operating system process ID 83445
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2019-06-15 08:12:45.260 [OHASD(9089)]CRS-8500: Oracle Clusterware OHASD process is starting with operating system process ID 9089
2019-06-15 08:12:45.511 [OHASD(9089)]CRS-0714: Oracle Clusterware Release 18.0.0.0.0.
2019-06-15 08:12:45.534 [OHASD(9089)]CRS-2112: The OLR service started on node node1.
2019-06-15 08:12:45.744 [OHASD(9089)]CRS-1301: Oracle High Availability Service started on node node1. <------------------------ Started at this time point
2019-06-15 08:12:45.820 [OHASD(9089)]CRS-8017: location: /etc/oracle/lastgasp has 2 reboot advisory log files, 0 were announced and 0 errors occurred
2019-06-15 08:12:46.996 [CSSDMONITOR(10200)]CRS-8500: Oracle Clusterware CSSDMONITOR process is starting with operating system process ID 10200
2019-06-15 08:12:47.019 [CSSDAGENT(10198)]CRS-8500: Oracle Clusterware CSSDAGENT process is starting with operating system process ID 10198
[root@node1]#

[root@node1]# ps -ef|egrep -i 'ohasd.bin'|grep -v grep
root 9089 1 0 2019 ? 1-20:40:30 /u01/app/18.0.0.0/grid/bin/ohasd.bin reboot
[root@node1]#
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+ Similar issue was also reported in below bug which was closed as not a bug

BUG 29366608 - False positive: Stale map files found in /etc/oracle/maps

Changes

 + These checks were added to precheck script as part of below bug:

    BUG 28192029 - CHECK FOR STALE MAP FILES

Cause

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