Re: 11.201 to 11.202 in-place upgrade
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:02:37 +0000
Message-ID: <W483711137276431333648957_at_webmail104>
Another bit of advice that might be fairly generic... With a recent 11.2.0.3.0 upgrade, we ran into a fatal error during installation/upgrade (i.e. "invalid entry size, expected XXX got YYY bytes") which indicated that our installation/upgrade media files (i.e. "pNNNNNNN_platform_XofY.zip") had been corrupted during download from support.oracle.com.
Compariing our SHA1 and MD5 checksums against the digest proved that wrong, but as we were unzipping those ".zip" files onto NFS-mounted file-systems from the target servers, we instead re-unzipped the downloaded archive files from the NFS server itself (i.e. on local drives) and the error from OUI disappeared.
Upshot: feel free to stage and use installation/upgrade media on NFS, but be cautious about unzipping them on NFS.
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From: Uzzell, Stephan [mailto:SUzzell_at_MICROS.COM]
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:44 AM
To: 'cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com', tim_at_evdbt.com
Cc: carlospena999_at_gmail.com, oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: 11.201 to 11.202 in-place upgrade
Hi Alan,We actually hit something very much like that just recently in an 11.2.0.2 environment.... do you have that bug number offhand?Thanks!Stephan Uzzell-----Original Message-----From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Guillermo Alan BortSent: Thursday, 05 April, 2012 13:42To: tim_at_evdbt.comCc: carlospena999_at_gmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.orgSubject: Re: 11.201 to 11.202 in-place upgradeIf I may be so bold as to suggest you upgrade straight to 11.2.0.3. There'sa nasty bug with 11.2.0.2 and ASM and RAC that causes all the processes ofthe ASM instance to be consumed and if the DB instance goes down you needto restart the entire CRS stack of the node. If you have more than onedatabase in the same cluster and more than one instance sharing any singlenode then this will bite you. There are one off patches but they are notincluded in any of the bundled patches AFAIK.Also, as mentioned before, starting with 11.2 you need to do out of placeupgrades. One Off and CPUs can be applied in existing homes, but patchestsand newer versions need a new home.CheersAlan.-<>--http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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