Re: Solaris Cluster Patches & Oracle Executable

Hi,

Even though Metalink note 131321.1 says you have to relink after OS patches based on vendor requirements, we usually do so only after major OS upgrades like Solaris 8 -> Solaris 10. It's more a safety measure than a requirement because usually all OS libraries are utilized by Oracle as dynamic objects. You can run ldd command on $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle to check this out.

--romas

On 2/8/08, Koivu, Lisa <Lisa.Koivu_at_starwoodvo.com> wrote:
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> Good morning all,
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> I boldly applied the latest cluster patch to one of my little blade
> servers. However, I don't see anything on Metalink that states you must
> relink the executable after patching the OS.
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> This seems like the logical next step, but since I didn't see it anywhere
> (and relinking can prove to be problematic), I decided to let it go and
> start up the database. It's only my test database, after all. My next step
> is to cluster patch one of my database servers that runs ASM. This action
> was suggested by Oracle Support. ASM makes me nervous because it's crashed
> multiple times and left no clues as to why. If a relink is required, and
> it's not done, it seems to me the first thing that will crash is ASM. (ASM
> crashes are spectacular!)
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> Comments, anyone? Also, if I've missed this in the documentation
> somewhere, a link to anything discussing this topic would be greatly
> appreciated.
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> Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
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> *Lisa Koivu*
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