After Solaris and GRID SW upgrades, oracle uid changed from 54321 to 69 and its primary group changed from oinstall to dba (Doc ID 2831761.1)

Last updated on MARCH 17, 2023

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 11.3 and later
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)

After updating Solaris (for example, from 11.4.25 to 11.4.37) and applying GRID software updates:

The oracle user's uid changed from 54321 to 69
The oracle user's primary group changed from oinstall to dba
The oracle user's home directory was changed from /export/home/oracle to /home/oracle
The oracle user account was locked and it's password disappeared

After reboot, CRS failed to start with the following log messages:

Solaris was updated to a new SRU (for example, from 11.4.25 to 11.4.37) and GRID software was updated.

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