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ERROR : <MACHINE> has state: STILL ALIVE AFTER REBOOT HAS BEEN INITIATED (Doc ID 2712735.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 21, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software - Version 20.0.0.0.0 to 20.0.0.0.0 [Release 20.0]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Customer is patching the database nodes

The DB node 1 was patched w/o trouble then they attempted to update nodes 2,3 and 4. patchmgr reported nodes 2 and 3 were not bounced, when
in fact the nodes were rebooted:

 

2020-08-01 17:16:28 -0400        :ERROR  : Node(s) is still alive after 10 minutes of timeout: <MACHINE2>,<MACHINE3>
2020-08-01 17:16:28 -0400        :ERROR  : An error occurred during the reboot of <MACHINE2>,<MACHINE3>.
2020-08-01 17:16:28 -0400        :ERROR  : Contact Oracle Support to investigate if a safe manual reboot or power cycle can be performed.
2020-08-01 17:16:28 -0400        :ERROR  : Waiting to ensure node(s) is down before reboot.
....
2020-08-01 17:16:28 -0400        :ERROR  : <MACHINE2> has state: STILL ALIVE AFTER REBOOT HAS BEEN INITIATED
2020-08-01 17:16:28 -0400        :ERROR  : <MACHINE3> has state: STILL ALIVE AFTER REBOOT HAS BEEN INITIATED
2020-08-01 17:40:03 -0400        :       : <MACHINE4> has state: SUCCESS

Changes

 

Cause

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