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DST_UPGRADE_STATE = DATAPUMP(1) causing issue in Oracle DB upgrade.

Yesterday, I was busy upgrading my UAT database from 12.1.0.2 to 12.2.0.1. As a prerequisite when I ran preupgrade.jar into 12.1 RDBMS home it gave me below warning: — CHECK/FIXUP name: pending_dst_session — — The call to run_fixup below will test whether — the following issue originally identified by — […]

INVALID JServer JAVA Virtual Machine in Oracle RDBMS Database 12.1.0.2.

Recently I was busy upgrading our DEV database from 12.1 to 12.2 & found JServer JAVA Virtual Machine registry component was in INVALID state. COMP_NAME COMP_ID VERSION STATUS ———————————– —————————— —————————— ———– Oracle Application Express APEX 4.2.5.00.08 VALID OWB OWB 11.2.0.3.0 VALID OLAP Catalog AMD 11.2.0.4.0 OPTION OFF Spatial SDO […]

Exadata image 18.1.5 in status failure due to Validation check ERROR – NOT RUNNING for service: dbserverd

Recently one of my client faced issue after upgrading Exadata image in DB server, image was showing its status as failure. I did review all patchmgr logs but didn’t see anything weird. root@testserver1 ]# imageinfo Kernel version: 4.1.12-94.8.4.el6uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Sat May 5 16:14:51 PDT 2018 x86_64 Image kernel version: […]