Re: Urgent: how to apply Exadata Bundle Patch 14 with "opatch auto"

  • From: De DBA <dedba@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:39:22 +1000

Ignore that - my bad.. I used a hyphen in front of "-auto"... instead of 
throwing a comprehensible error, it complained about the user :(

Have a nice day!

Cheers,
Tony

On 3/02/12 12:35 PM, De DBA wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm stumped. Oracle tells me in the readme of BP14 (patch 13556724) to
> run opatch auto<path_to_patch>  *as root*. Opatch however exits with
>
> "The user is root. OPatch cannot continue if the user is root"
>
> Has anyone done this before? How can one apply this patch to the grid
> home (which is owned by root) if opatch will not run under root? Google
> doen't seem to know..
>
> Exadata 11.2.2.4.2
> Opatch 11.2.0.1.9
> Oracle 11.2.0.2
>
> Cheers,
> Tony
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