Re: Solaris Cluster Patches & Oracle Executable
- From: "Roman Podshivalov" <roman.podshivalov@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lisa.Koivu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:45:35 -0500
Hi,
Even though Metalink note 131321.1 says you have to relink after OS patches
based on vendor requirements, we usually do so only after major OS upgrades
like Solaris 8 -> Solaris 10. It's more a safety measure than a requirement
because usually all OS libraries are utilized by Oracle as dynamic objects.
You can run ldd command on $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle to check this out.
--romas
On 2/8/08, Koivu, Lisa <Lisa.Koivu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Good morning all,
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> I boldly applied the latest cluster patch to one of my little blade
> servers. However, I don't see anything on Metalink that states you must
> relink the executable after patching the OS.
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> This seems like the logical next step, but since I didn't see it anywhere
> (and relinking can prove to be problematic), I decided to let it go and
> start up the database. It's only my test database, after all. My next step
> is to cluster patch one of my database servers that runs ASM. This action
> was suggested by Oracle Support. ASM makes me nervous because it's crashed
> multiple times and left no clues as to why. If a relink is required, and
> it's not done, it seems to me the first thing that will crash is ASM. (ASM
> crashes are spectacular!)
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> Comments, anyone? Also, if I've missed this in the documentation
> somewhere, a link to anything discussing this topic would be greatly
> appreciated.
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> Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
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> *Lisa Koivu*
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