Re: Upgrade ASM and database to 12c - No GRID or RAC

From: Sandra Becker <sbecker6925_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 13:51:30 -0600
Message-ID: <CAJzM94Dg+87xdNW1+Ct1NYv1H9zYd4ftw9oFUSWaL1+JP_BRyA_at_mail.gmail.com>



We have an SR open with Oracle, but so far they haven't come back with anything useful.

Sandy

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> open an SR with Oracle.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 10, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Current environment:
>
> - Oracle EE 11.2.0.4
> - Linux x86-64
> - ASM 11.2.0.4
>
> We have several environments that were set up as single-instance databases
> using ASM, no GRID or RAC. We have been unsuccessful in trying to upgrade
> ASM to 12.1.0.2. We have not attempted to upgrade the databases since we
> were told that ASM must be upgraded to 12c first. Steps we have taken:
>
> - unzip the grid files
> - unset variables like ORACLE_HOME, ORA_CRS_HOME, etc.
> - from the unzipped location, kick off runInstaller
> - execute the rootupgrade.sh script
>
> The last step is where we have problems. The last entry in the log is for
> "asmca -silent -upgradeLocalASM". After a couple of hours (had a meeting
> in between), we just pressed the <Enter> key a few times to see if it was
> waiting for something. Apparently, it was prompting for something, but no
> prompts appeared on the screen so we have no idea what we should have
> answered to the prompts. The log did show one prompt for "Enter
> password". We did verify that the ASMSNMP user was in there and had the
> sysdba privilege. We verified that the orapw+ASM password in the 11g OHome
> was correct for SYS and ASMSNMP.
>
> Can someone point us to documentation or a step-by-step guide that will
> guide us in upgrading this kind of environment? Unfortunately, this is a
> secure system so I am unable to supply any logs.
> Thank you for any suggestions and guidance.
> --
> Sandy B.
>
>

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Sandy B.

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