ODA (Oracle Database Appliance): GI Patching Troubleshooting (Doc ID 1665754.1)

Last updated on MAY 07, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Appliance - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Oracle Database Appliance Software - Version 2.2.0.0 to 2.10.0.0
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

There are cases for which the GI patching fails and the customer will need to reapply the GI patching.
How to debug where the GI patching fail, where are the logs, how the inventory.xml should be, it is the intent of this article

Scope

Basic Grid Infrastructure & oakcli knowledge is required.

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GI Patching Troubleshooting

Acronyms, Terms and Procedures Used in This Note

Relevant Log and Trace location

Location of OAK GI patching needed log/trace

Location of runInstaller(OUI) needed log/trace

Location of needed GI log/trace

1. GI update is failing due to invalid response file

2. Out of place upgrade failing

3. During GI update the rootupgrade.sh did not complete successfully (due to OC4J resource failed to start)

4. During GI update the rootupgrade.sh did not complete successfully (due to OC4J resource failed to stop)

5. During GI update the rootupgrade.sh did not complete successfully (due to ASM not able to start up succesfully)

6. Successfully GI upgrade but ASM is crashing with ODA-600 [kfdJoin3]

7. GI upgrade failure after a previous failure

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