GRID patching/upgrade

DB startup taking significant time on newly installed 19c RAC cluster

Dear Readers, Trust you are doing well!!! In this post, I will discussing about an interesting issue I faced recently on newly installed 19c 4 node RAC cluster, wherein DB startup using command “srvctl startup database” was taking significant time. Each DB startup took around 15-20 minutes, sometimes more than […]

Applying OJVM July 2021 patch(32876380) on GI HOME fails with “ArchiveAction: Destination File “$GI_HOME/lib/lib*****.a” does not exists or is not writeable” & “ApplySession::apply failed: mv: 0653-401 Cannot rename $GI_HOME/lib/lib*****.so”

Dear Readers, In this post, I am going to write about the issue I faced while patching GI HOME with July 2021 OJVM patch(32876380) post applying July 2021 GI RU patch(32904851). I had a requirement to apply patch 32900083 (GI RU & OJVM Combo July 2021) on GI HOME, which […]

GRID 19c AIX patching with GI RELEASE UPDATE 19.6.0.0.0 fails with CLSRSC-196: ACFS driver install actions failed

Today while applying “Patch 30501910: GI RELEASE UPDATE 19.6.0.0.0” on recently upgrade GRID home from 12.2 to 19.6, I received error related ACFS ==> CLSRSC-196: ACFS driver install actions failed. Command used for patching ==> opatchauto apply -oh /u01/app/19.6.0.0/grid /u05/ADI/patch/30501910 Detailed error is as given below: Execution of [SIHAStartupAction] patch […]