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ODA upgrade to 12.2 fails with [DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: Fail to run root scripts..]

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During an upgrade to 12.2.1.4 and in the step running GRID root scripts, the upgrade fails with:

[DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: Fail to run root scripts..]

After that if you run the upgrade again, you will get the following error:

[DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: Fail to extract the GI clone file.]

When I got there error’s, I found in the logging (/u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid/install/root_<host_name>_<date>_<time>-<more_numbers>.log) that there was no PKI trust set up between the ODA and ‘itself’ (aka passwordless login). The Oracle GRID upgrade works by accessing all the nodes in it’s cluster via ssh, including itself. But This was a single (non HA) machine (X6-2M), so did not expect it. Continue reading →

The extended or streched Oracle (RAC) cluster – part 1

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for part 2, click here…

First of all, both terms ‘extended’ and ‘stretched’ are used on blogs, in documentation and logfiles. I will use ‘extended’ in this one. Also, voting files are files, not disks. Oracle will store the file(s) on one of the disks within the specified diskgroup, preferable in different failgroups. Also people talk about a ‘RAC’ cluster, but an Oracle cluster can exist without RAC. RAC is the database option to run the database in a cluster on Oracle clusterware.

Sorry, no images in this blog post… only text.

When is an Oracle cluster an extended/stretched cluster?

It’s not distance. Oracle does not know if it’s in the same or different racks or buildings, divided by roads or rivers…  There is no setting ‘extended=Y’ in Oracle that it knows about being extended.

It’s the way _you_ design the storage for Oracle clusterware and ASM.

My point of view, extended is; When there is mirroring of blocks on disks and these mirrored blocks are on disks in different storage locations. Continue reading →

Oracle Grid 12c and Linux 7: PRVE-0421 : No entry exists in /etc/fstab for mounting /dev/shm

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When you run Oracle Grid 12c ‘cluvfy stage -pre crsinst’ on Linux 7 (Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.2 in my case) you will get the following error:

Starting check for /dev/shm mounted as temporary file system ...

ERROR:

PRVE-0421 : No entry exists in /etc/fstab for mounting /dev/shm
PRVE-0421 : No entry exists in /etc/fstab for mounting /dev/shm
PRVE-0421 : No entry exists in /etc/fstab for mounting /dev/shm
PRVE-0421 : No entry exists in /etc/fstab for mounting /dev/shm

Check for /dev/shm mounted as temporary file system failed

When you do a ‘df -h’ you will see that ‘/dev/shm’ actually is mounted:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 24G 0 24G 0% /dev
tmpfs    24G 0 24G 0% /dev/shm

This is due to a bug (Doc ID 2065603.1) which comes from the case that the cluvfy check does not check the actual mount of the file system, but looks for the persistence line of this mount in ‘/etc/fstab’ like it did in Linux 6. In Linux 7 you get this tmpfs mount by default.

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Agent Configuration Assistant does not add targets

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Today the Agent Configuration Assistant (Agent on 64bit Windows Server 2003, Grid Control on 32bit Windows XP) failed in running the last optional step. It hang for a long time, too long (a hour or so). After canceling this last step, checking the [configToolFailedCommands] showed the [oracle.sysman.emcp.agent.AgentPlugIn] was messing up the set-up.

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