Re: Upgrading Grid Infra for Standalone ASM from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2

> Wondering if anyone else out there has done upgrades of Grid Infrastructure
> for standalone ASM from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2.

I upgraded our GI from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2, but it's not a standalone ASM, so it's not exactly the same setup as you mention. In any case I wrote down how it was done, so it might help others.

http://itdavid.blogspot.com/2011/02/installing-patch-11202-to-oracle-11201.html

I've been running 11.2.0.2 since February and I didn't hit the bug you're talking about.

A quick fix for your problem is to run a find(1) from your GI owner user's crontab which removes the core files. It won't fix the problem, but at least it will save you from a file system full problem. Of course the real fix is to have Oracle issue a patch for this, but it might take some time. Meanwhile, something like this could help:

find $GRID_HOME/log/`hostname`/diskmon -type f -iname "*core*" -exec rm {} \;

Just make sure you don't have other files that match the pattern "*core*" in that directory and below that you want to keep.

HTH, David

> I seem to be encountering a
> new bug every time I do it.
> The latest one results in core dump files being created every 10 minutes for
> no reason. This is bug 10283819, although it's been closed as "not a bug".
> The original poster said that the only workaround he found was to remove the
> old 11.2.0.1 grid home directory (which I'd rather not do until I'm well
> into running on 11.2.0.2) and restart all services. So far in just over 5.5
> days, I have over 6.5GB of these core dump files in the
> $GRID_HOME/log/<hostname>/diskmon/ directory.
>
> If anyone else has done such an upgrade, I'd like to know if you see this as
> well. Definitely seems like it's not "not a bug" to me.
>

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