Tag Archives: bug

Oracle Database Appliance – Problem Replacing Shared Disk (2.4)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by marcel

As with all systems, a disk failure can happen and so we had a failing disk on one of our ODA’s. As mentioned in the ODA documentation, replacing a disk is easy and OAK does everything for you. Actually it … Continue reading →

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ORA-19809: limit exceeded for recovery files

Posted on January 9, 2013 by marcel

In our cloning procedures we use the RMAN “DUPLICATE” command for duplicating databases. This all went fine for a long time until one moment we start getting errors during the duplication process (from the point where media recovery gets started). … Continue reading →

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Grid Infra – ASM 11.2.0.3 bug on Solaris – slice 2 CANDIDATE

Posted on August 24, 2012 by marcel

We recently ran into a bug (at least that how I look at it) that is introduced with ASM 11.2.0.3. As of this version, ASM shows slice 2 (the complete disk, starting a cylinder 0 thus inlcuding the VTOC) as … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Appliance – cleanupDeploy X-windows failure

Posted on August 8, 2012 by marcel

Whenever something goes wrong during the deployment of an ODA, you can try to fix the problem and restart the deployment from the step where the deployment failed (using the GridInst.pl script). Sometimes however when the deployment fails, restarting the … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Appliance – Installing Patch Bundle 2.2

Posted on May 21, 2012 by marcel

On 17 April 2012 ODA patch bundle 2.2.0.0.0 was released, which includes an Linux kernel upgrade (2.6.18-194.32.1.0.1.e15 to 2.6.32-300.11.1.el5uek – Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel), Oracle Grid Infrastructure patchset 11.2.0.3.2 and Oracle RDBMS patchset 11.2.0.3.2. Oracle made the installation of various parts … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Appliance – Critical Patch Bundle 2.1.0.3.1

Posted on March 21, 2012 by marcel

Oracle found a bug (a Seagate firmware issue) for ODA’s with Patch Bundle 2.1.0.3.0 applied. They highly recommend the installation of patch 13817532 after you’ve applied Patch Bundle 2.1.0.3.0. The problem is described in MOS note 1438089.1, but in short … Continue reading →

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Expired passwords in 11g database using 10g client

Posted on May 22, 2011 by marcel

When I create a new user/schema in an Oracle database I specify a password and immediately use the PASSWORD EXPIRE clause to expire this one-time-use only password. This way I make sure the user/application who is going to use this … Continue reading →

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Unable to monitor ORA-errors in alertlog for 10.2.0.5 databases

Posted on February 8, 2011 by marcel

There is a problem monitoring Oracle 10.2.0.5 databases in OEM. Alerts for ORA- errors that appear in the alertlog of 10.2.0.5 databases won’t get generated and you will not be able to view the alertlog (time range) for databases of … Continue reading →

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