Re: 10.2.0.4 upgrade - How did it go for you?

Hi,

Brian schrieb:
> upgrade have experienced. Ours is a 2-node Linux
> X86_64 cluster that utilizes ASM.
>
> We have already upgraded single node test instances without any issues
> to 10.2.0.4 <http://10.2.0.4> and I haven't seen any problems but I'm
> interested in the RAC rollout or other issues we've yet to see.

we patched two SLES10 x86_64 2-node-RACs from 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.4 so far, and both had aches with CRS (not mentioning multipath issues like http://www.usn-it.de/index.php/2008/02/08/oracle-10gr2-clusterware-on-novellsuse-sles10-on-multipath-devices/ hitting all 10gR2 CRS on SLES10):
runInstaller at CRS patch complained about trying to update Oracle RAC to 10.2.0.4 before CRS was updated. Same at patching the DB binaries - runInstaller complained about an inconsisitent Version: CRS 10.2.0.4 is too old for a 10.2.0.4 Database.
No harm was done my ignoring this, but sometimes I ask myself .... you know.

ASM instances did not need patching, referencing to dbua.

First I tried to use DBUA for the DB instances, but it cancelled the instances without being able to restart them, did set cluster_database=false (what is mandatory to patch an instance), but did not re-enable this after failing and so on. But patching the instances with the SQL script worked without errors and quite well as far as I have seen until today.

Regards
Martin Klier

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