[PCA 2.x] Upgrade Management Node Fails with "FATAL ERROR: Failed to export the database" (Doc ID 2371366.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 05, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

 On Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, when running an upgrade to a 2.3.X release, the upgrade fails with :

[03/06/2018 16:31:22 813576] INFO (<stdin>:6) [PCA Upgrade] Exporting the database for the OVM Upgrade
[03/06/2018 16:31:44 814675] INFO (<stdin>:6) [PCA Upgrade] Beginning Database export...
[03/06/2018 16:40:25 827555] ERROR (<stdin>:6) [PCA UPGRADE] FATAL ERROR: Failed to export the database.
[03/06/2018 16:40:27 827625] INFO (<stdin>:6) [PCA Upgrade] Relinking to the shared storage

The upgrade is then stopped.

Cause

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