11g Upgrade Method Doubt....

Hi, DB Version: 11.1.0.6 O/S : Win XP Prof I am reading 11g docs.In the Upgrade guide, there are quite a number of ways listed for the upgrade.Please look here. The listed ways are
(1)Database Upgrade Assistant (DBUA)
(2)Manual upgrade using SQL scripts and utilities
(3)Export and Import utilities
(4)CREATE TABLE AS SQL statement
For the last, 4th option,the details are these, Copies data from a database into a new Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1) database. Data copying can copy a subset of the data, leaving the database unchanged. I am not able to understand how CTAS is a way to upgrade?How it can be an option for upgrade when we are just porint data from one database of 11g to another.The same method is given in 11g New Features Book from OU also.If anyone can throw any light over thismethod of upgrade than please do.
Further,if you just click on Choose an upgrade method link, this method is not listed there. The only 3 which are listed are traditional ones, DBUA, Export/Import, Manual.
Please clear this for me how this method is usable in the upgrade process?
Regards
Aman....
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Aman....

Hans,
Now go back and see if you can answer your
question about 'method 4'
I knew you would say the same to me that's why I
mentioned couple of posts above that I am getting
your point :-).<g>
Please correct me now in my understanding.This method
is actualy not an upgrade atleast not the one through
which we will upgrade teh entire db.This is the one
when we have two dbs of 11g and from 1 we are
migrating few objects ( tables) with some
restrictions on data to db B.Is this correct?You are correct. This is not an upgrade to an existing database.
However, it can be considered an upgrade in the sense that the data source for an application is 'upgraded'. From the application's perspective, the data source used to be 10g and now it is 11g.
Hans, my doubt since the origin of this question is
with the title.This title doesn't seem to be
appropriate. "Data Copying" which is the title in the
previous relases docs sounds more appropriate where
this CTAS is given as an example not as a sole way.Again, I agree. It is all a matter of [mis-]interpretation and perspective.

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.... minimum required size: 10 MB
--> APPS_UNDOTS1 tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 299 MB
--> APPS_TS_TX_DATA tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 2322 MB
--> APPS_TS_QUEUES tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 70 MB
--> OLAP tablespace is adequate for the upgrade.
.... minimum required size: 16 MB
Update Parameters: [Update Oracle Database 11.1 init.ora or spfile]
WARNING: --> "compatible" must be set to at least 10.1.0
Renamed Parameters: [Update Oracle Database 11.1 init.ora or spfile]
-- No renamed parameters found. No changes are required.
Obsolete/Deprecated Parameters: [Update Oracle Database 11.1 init.ora or spfile]
--> "optimizer_max_permutations"
--> "row_locking"
--> "undo_suppress_errors"
--> "max_enabled_roles"
--> "enqueue_resources"
--> "sql_trace"
--> "background_dump_dest" replaced by "diagnostic_dest"
--> "user_dump_dest" replaced by "diagnostic_dest"
--> "core_dump_dest" replaced by "diagnostic_dest"
Components: [The following database components will be upgraded or installed]
--> Oracle Catalog Views [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle Packages and Types [upgrade] VALID
--> JServer JAVA Virtual Machine [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle XDK for Java [upgrade] VALID
--> Real Application Clusters [upgrade] INVALID
--> OLAP Analytic Workspace [upgrade] UPGRADED
--> OLAP Catalog [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle Text [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle XML Database [install]
--> Oracle Java Packages [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle interMedia [upgrade] VALID
--> Spatial [upgrade] VALID
--> Data Mining [upgrade] VALID
--> Oracle OLAP API [upgrade] UPGRADED
Miscellaneous Warnings
WARNING: --> Passwords exist in some database links.
.... Passwords will be encrypted during the upgrade.
.... Downgrade of database links with passwords is not supported.
WARNING: --> Deprecated CONNECT role granted to some user/roles.
.... CONNECT role after upgrade has only CREATE SESSION privilege.
WARNING: --> Database contains stale optimizer statistics.
.... Refer to the 11g Upgrade Guide for instructions to update
.... statistics prior to upgrading the database.
.... Component Schemas with stale statistics:
.... SYS
.... OLAPSYS
.... MDSYS
.... ODM
WARNING: --> Database contains INVALID objects prior to upgrade.
.... The list of invalid SYS/SYSTEM objects was written to
.... registry$sys_inv_objs.
.... The list of non-SYS/SYSTEM objects was written to
.... registry$nonsys_inv_objs.
.... Use utluiobj.sql after the upgrade to identify any new invalid
.... objects due to the upgrade.
.... USER APPS has 3 INVALID objects.
WARNING: --> Database contains schemas with objects dependent on network
packages.
.... Refer to the 11g Upgrade Guide for instructions to configure Network ACLs.
.... USER APPS has dependent objects.
.... USER MDSYS has dependent objects.
SYSAUX Tablespace:
[Create tablespace in the Oracle Database 11.1 environment]
--> New "SYSAUX" tablespace
.... minimum required size for database upgrade: 500 MB
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> spool off
Thank's
Regards
GSM

11G Upgrade - EBS 12.1.2

I have a few questions on the 11G upgrade.
DB - 11.2.0.3 - OS - zLinux
EBS - 12.1.2 - SLES 10-SP3
I am following note 1058763.1 (Interoperability Notes Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0) - and am at step 23 - Implement and Run Autoconfig
Referring to 387859.1 (Using AutoConfig to Manage System Configurations in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12), I have finished unzipping the appsutil.zip file to the $ORACLE_HOME on the database tier using the unzip -o appsutil.zip.
The next step in 387859.1 requires running autoconfig on the DB tier - for which I don't find the $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/scripts folder.
Section 3.2 of 387859.1 refers to Installing JRE on the Database tier - however when I run the java -version command - I already get the following output on the upgraded 11g home.
tebsdb01:EBST1:/t01/product/db11.2.0.3 > java -version
java version "1.6.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxz6460sr9fp3ifix-20111215_04(SR9 FP3+IV12154))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux s390x-64 jvmxz6460sr9-20111214_97396 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - 20111214_097396
JIT - r9_20101028_17488ifx31
GC - 20101027_AA)
JCL - 20110727_04
tebsdb01:EBST1:/t01/product/db11.2.0.3 >
My first question - what steps have I missed that have resulted in a missing $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/scripts folder
My second question - if my java version is already 1.6.0, is there a need to continue with instaling JRE on the database tier?
This is the first time I am running through a 11g upgrade - hence the plethora of questions.
Thanks so much in advance for your help.
Regards

One last question regarding this 11gR2 upgrade.
My APPS and BA team are now asking what kind of testing they should be doing on an upgraded 11gR2 instance.
Can anyone who has upgraded an instance (DB only) shed some light on this aspect of the QA testing process?Since the database upgrade does not change any of the underlying objects under Oracle EBS schemas, you need to do basic checks to verify this upgrade. Examples are ..
- You can shutdown/startup the database with no issues
- No errors are reported in the database log files
- Submit concurrent programs and make sure it completes successfully
- Make sure CM and all services are up
- Create/Update Users/Responsibilities
- Make sure AutoConfig complete successfully
..etc
Thanks,
Hussein

So what would be the ideal tried and tested upgrade method?

I purchased Snow Leopard last week but have been hanging off upgrading as there have been mixed feedback about the upgrade. I guess curiosity is getting the better of me now so would like to know what is the most practical way of doing the upgrade? I'm also curious about the installation just to make sure that the installation disc is indeed working before I run out of time to return it if faulty as i've read a few posts where users have had this trouble.
Just now I have 10.5.8 installed and I use Logic Pro 8.0.2 and everything seems ticktyboo! but i'll be looking to upgrade Logic from version 8 to 9 in a few weeks so would like to get the OS updated prior to this (I'm holding off with installing Logic 9 until 9.0.1 is released due to various bug reports).
I have the following up to date backups of my system:
Time Machine backup on external drive
Bootable clone of Mac HD on external drive (Created with SuperDuper!)
The confusing part for me is that i've been looking at too many posts where the methods given have ranged from upgrade, erase & install, create a sandbox and a few others that I'm not even sure about. Would I be best doing the upgrade method then using migration assistant to migrate my applications over?
Like I said, it's not a necessity for me to upgrade just now but I just want to have a nose...
Thanks in advance
Bryan

So I took the plunge and went for the upgrade...
and all is well
Being honest this was really quite simple to do and although I know there has been a lot of mixed feedback regarding the upgrade, I think this went effortlessly smooth and i've never done it before! I do have a bit of knowledge using computers but I can imagine that some folks who don't may have issues during the process.
In this case I would recommend everyone takes the time to do a little research here first before upgrading as I would say that there are probably a couple of things that should be done in preparation prior to the upgrade that isn't mentioned within the upgrade box set that the average user would not look into.
So here's a rundown of what I did for future reference (mostly advice already given in this post:
1. Check all your software/apps are up to date and more importantly, check they are compatible with Snow Leopard
2. Create a Time Machine backup of your hard drive prior to upgrading
3. Create a bootable clone of your internal hard drive on a GUID partitioned drive prior to upgrading (I used Disc Utility for partitioning and SuperDuper for cloning) and check that it works by holding down "option" on startup of your mac and booting from the clone drive available
4. Reboot your system on your internal hard drive
5. Repair Disk Permission on your internal hard drive using Disk Utility
6. Verify internal hard drive using Disk Utility
7. Detach all non peripheral devices from your mac (external hard drives, audio interfaces, ipods, usb flash drives, cameras etc) prior to upgrading, leaving only your keyboard and mouse connected
8. Insert the Snow Leopard installation disc
9. Double click on "Install Mac OS X"
10. Read through the "Read Me" document before you carry on
11. Click on the "Customise" tab if you would like to add additional content (Quicktime 7 is located here and was already ticked when I checked)
12. Proceed with the install
That was pretty much it! The installation took me 35 minutes, where the disc did it's stuff for about 20 minutes, then the mac shutdown and rebooted and carried on with the installation. Once It was complete a video clip came up (which I have no idea what it was for!) and I then clicked on finish (or something similar!) and then ejected the disc.
My desktop was exactly the same as it was in Leopard and I tried opening all my apps and they worked fine. I haven't given Logic a good look over yet but I loaded a project and everything was running great.
I've since done a new Time Machine backup and that worked as expected but will leave the clone drive on 10.5.8 for now incase of emergency...
So what the difference so far?
I think everyone will assume this when they do the upgrade but everything does seem to be running that little bit faster than it was in Leopard. One thing that definitely is quicker is going through the System Preferences, this seems really speedy compared to what it was like before. Expose seems quicker to me too and i've read that some people don't like the new layout but it seems practical to me! I've not really tried out the Expose from dock thing but to be honest I can't see me ever using it!
The only major thing that looks different to me (aside from the GUI tweaks) is that the screen now looks slightly darker. Not just the GUI but even within apps or browsing online. This may be a power saver thing, who knows? It may just be me...
So there you have it, one success story (so far) to put your mind at ease when you finally come to do the dirty work! Now id Snow Leopard could only make me produce some decent finished music projects.......

Recommended upgrade method from ECC5 to ECC6 for lowest production downtime

Hello everybody,
I've been looking through multiple documents concerning a system upgrade and I am still unable to figure out the recommended method for upgrading a system with minimum downtime.
My scenario requires that tests as rigid as possible will be performed and that development will be halted for the shortest time possible , therefore development must be continued after the initial upgrade.
We are currently debating the required way to do this - what should be done with the change requests that currently reside in the DEV system, in which steps the incomptabilities are fixed and so on.
I've decided that I'll share my thoughts with you and maybe you guros will be able to point out mistakes in the methodology.
1. ECC 5 Production System is copied aside, lets call this system EPC
2. Change requests from DEV ECC5 are copied to this EPC System.
3. EPC system is upgraded to ECC6.
4. Bugs and incomptabilities such as unicode incomptabilities are fixed and merged in a change request
This ends the preperation step and in my opinion is sort of a preperation step.
During the whole preparation step, which to my estimate could take at least one month, development in the original system must be continued, so this is my main trouble.
What is the recommended procedure from here?
I assume that another production must be done on the day of the actual upgrade start, then the fixes from the previous preperation system are copied to this actual ECC6 Production, but I am rather lost as far as it goes to having an ECC6 Dev with most current change requests.
I would appreciate any hints and help,
thanks in advance,
Eli.

Ok, your idea of having a production copy for development and tests is a good upgrade strategy, we have done this twice due high quantity of developments and configuragion changes but I don´t see why you wrote " copy change requests from DEV to EPC " your whole configuration, programs, etc, are already in EPC once you copy the system.
In this scenario every change made in DEV ECC 5.0 must be also replicated and tested in EPC 6.0 because you cannot use the change requests from 5.0 in 6.0 once in productive upgrade, let me list the global steps:
1.- Homogeneous system copy from PRD to EPC, you will get a working test platform
2.- Upgrade EPC to 6.0
3.- Developers and functionals will do all respective changes and generate chage requests.
Once EPC is ready
4.- Upgrade DEV system to 6.0 transport change requests created in EPC to upgraded DEV, from this point you should only do emergency changes using Q&A system.
5.- Upgrade Q&A system, transport change requests from DEV, no changes are permited from now until PRD is upgraded.
6.- Do all tests very carefully
7.- Upgrade PRD transport change requests
Then you are ready. the downtime can be tune trough EPC, DEV and Q&A systems so you can determine what you shoud do to assure the shortest method.
I recomend you to use the downtime minimized upgrade method and from every upgrade take a deep look at the upgrade report generated after the whole process is completed.

[Urgent] Some questions about OID/OSSO 10g - 11g upgrade

Dear all,
We are under doing upgrading assessment of OID/OSSO 10g to 11g for a customer. After reviewed the 'upgrading guide', we still have some questions as below:
1.     Whether the ‘10g DIP profiles’ will be still available after the OID 11g upgrade? Currently there are some sync of AD<->OID and DB->OID.
2.     Whether the ‘WNA’ function will still work after the upgrade?
3.     Is there a big change of OID API from 10g to 11g? If so, I think a big effort maybe on application modification.
4.     I found that there is a OAM Basic version for OSSO 10g upgrade. So if this OAM Basic will migrate the OSSO configuration (like external application) automatically, or it must be re-configed after the upgrade?
5.     Currently customer config OID 10g as BPEL/ESB’s identity store. So does BPEL/ESB 10g is certificated with OID 11g also? I didn’t find the certification so far.
Thank you in advance and any comment are welcome.

Dear all,
We are under doing upgrading assessment of OID/OSSO 10g to 11g for a customer. After reviewed the 'upgrading guide', we still have some questions as below:
1.     Whether the ‘10g DIP profiles’ will be still available after the OID 11g upgrade? Currently there are some sync of AD<->OID and DB->OID.
2.     Whether the ‘WNA’ function will still work after the upgrade?
3.     Is there a big change of OID API from 10g to 11g? If so, I think a big effort maybe on application modification.
4.     I found that there is a OAM Basic version for OSSO 10g upgrade. So if this OAM Basic will migrate the OSSO configuration (like external application) automatically, or it must be re-configed after the upgrade?
5.     Currently customer config OID 10g as BPEL/ESB’s identity store. So does BPEL/ESB 10g is certificated with OID 11g also? I didn’t find the certification so far.
Thank you in advance and any comment are welcome.

[Urgent] Some questions about Oracle Portal 10g - 11g upgrade

Dear friends,
We are under doing upgrading assessment of Oracle Portal from 10g to 11g. After reviewed the 'upgrading guide', we still have some questions as below:
1. Whether the 'Instant Portal' feature remain in Oracle Portal 11g? If yes, how to migrate the Instant Portal 10g sites? If no, any workaround?
2. Whether the old 10g Page Group and Pages will be still available after 11g upgrade? Also can customer import the old 10g transportset into Portal 11g?
3. How about the customized Portal 10g objects (such as customized template, style, attributes) after 11g upgrade? Still be usable?
4. Customer use PDK to develop many portlets in 10g. Can they use JDeveloper 11g to migrate their old project to 11g automatically?
Thank you in advance and any comment are welcome.

1. Whether the 'Instant Portal' feature remain in Oracle Portal 11g? If yes, how to migrate the Instant Portal 10g sites? If no, any workaround?Instant Portal is not available anymore in Oracle Portal 11g. The Instant Portal page groups will be migrated to standard Portal page groups. Maintenance of the Instant Portal can be done with the standard Portal tools. The Instant Portal tools are not available anymore.
Whether the old 10g Page Group and Pages will be still available after 11g upgrade? Also can customer import the old 10g transportset into Portal 11g?Old 10g Page Groups are migrated to Portal 11g. They will still be available after the upgrade.
Export/Import through transports sets has always been limited to instances of the same version. It is not supported between versions as documented in the Administration Guide :
[11.2.1|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/portal.1111/e10239/cg_imex.htm#CCJBCCGD] System Requirements
Before exporting and importing content, ensure that your system meets the minimum system requirements, as described in this section.
Notes:
* Export and import functions only within the same release of Oracle Portal and the same patch release, for example, release 10.1.4 to release 10.1.4 or release 11.1.1 to release 11.1.1. You cannot export and import between two different releases, such as release 10.1.2 to release 10.1.4 or release 10.1.4 to release 11.1.1.
How about the customized Portal 10g objects (such as customized template, style, attributes) after 11g upgrade? Still be usable?Customized objects get migrated as well. Certain types (e.g. PL/SQL item types) need to be checked after upgrade as the behavior of the PL/SQL code may differ between database versions. This is particularly of concern when the 10.1.4.x Portal uses a 10.1 database. A database upgrade to either 10.2, 11.1 or 11.2 is necessary as Portal 11g is not supported with RDBMS 10.1.
Customer use PDK to develop many portlets in 10g. Can they use JDeveloper 11g to migrate their old project to 11g automatically?Never done this, but the Portal framework is able to consume JPDK providers which are running in older versions of the toolkit. If the providers are running in standalone OC4J containers, you would be able to upgrade the framework and keep the providers in their OC4J containers. This will allow you to focus on the framework first and worry about your providers later.
Thanks,
EJ

Oracle 10g to 11g Upgrade - Oracle Clusterware problem

Oracle10g RAC (2 Nodes) RHEL 4 64bit
Hi All,
I have began the procedure for upgrading Oracle Clusterware to 11g. However, during the install OUI was giving me certain error messages like it couldn't transfer the OUI installlogs to node 2. Well, I kept pushing through the install and after I ran the last rootupgrade script on node 2 it gave me the following error:
Checking the existence of nodeapps on this node
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: oracle/ops/opsctl/OPSCTLDriver (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
Creating '/crs/home/install/paramfile.crs' with data used for CRS configuration
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: oracle/ops/opsctl/OPSCTLDriver (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
Failed to retrieve VIP details
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: oracle/ops/opsctl/OPSCTLDriver (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
Failed to retrieve VIP details
Setting CRS configuration values in /crs/home/install/paramfile.crs
So I ignored the error for the time being and after that I checked the status of crs and it gave me the following:
[oracle@vtl-rac2 crsd]$ crsstatus
HA Resource Target State
ora.VMRACDEV.VMRACDEV1.inst ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.VMRACDEV.VMRACDEV2.inst ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
ora.VMRACDEV.db ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac1.ASM1.asm ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac1.LISTENER_VTL-RAC1.lsnr ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac1.gsd ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac1.ons ONLINE OFFLINE
ora.vtl-rac1.vip ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac1
ora.vtl-rac2.ASM2.asm ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
ora.vtl-rac2.LISTENER_VTL-RAC2.lsnr ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
ora.vtl-rac2.gsd ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
ora.vtl-rac2.ons ONLINE OFFLINE
ora.vtl-rac2.vip ONLINE ONLINE on vtl-rac2
So i tried to bring it back up by doing a crs_stop -all and crs_start -all and it gave me the following error:
vtl-rac1 : CRS-1019: Resource ora.vtl-rac2.ons (application) cannot run on vtl-rac1
Start of `ora.vtl-rac1.ons` on member `vtl-rac1` failed.
vtl-rac2 : CRS-1019: Resource ora.vtl-rac1.ons (application) cannot run on vtl-rac2
CRS-0223: Resource 'ora.VMRACDEV.db' has placement error.
CRS-0215: Could not start resource 'ora.vtl-rac1.ons'.
CRS-0215: Could not start resource 'ora.vtl-rac2.ons'.
I am thinking that all of this is caused by the various issues I had with the install. If I am incorrect, then please let me know. If it is true, I would like to know if there are any 11g docs on how to clean up a failed clusterware upgrade. Any advice would be greatly appreciated on any of the situations I am having.
Thank you

Hi Chandra,
Did CVU report any problems before the upgrade?No, there were no errors reported by CVU before the upgrade.
I don't there is note out there for cleaning 11g CRS
install...and I think can very use the 10g CRS note -
239998.1.Yeah I might have to go that way.
I have both the 11g CRS install and upgrade from 10g
to 11CRS at
http://chandradba.blogspot.com/2007/08/oracle-11g-rac-
install-on-red-hat-50.html
and
http://chandradba.blogspot.com/2008/02/oracle-10g-crs-
upgrade-to-11g-crs.html
see if it helps.Yup, your guide is very simple, clear and error proof :) That's how mine when pretty much except right around 75% I started getting these strange errors of files not being able to be transferred to node 2. Anyways, it shouldn't be a problem as none of those errors were configuration related...or else I would have a messed up cluster.
Well, I actually rebooted both machines and now the whole CRS stack is up!! So I guess I am ok. We'll just have to wait and see.
Thanks for your help Chandra...I always appreciate it.

11g upgrade issue!

Hi,
We had upgraded Oracle 9i to Oracle 11g successfully but then during latest July 12 patchset installation, the binary got corrupted. Since we had the complete database up and running without any issue. We took the backup (os copy command) of all DBFs, CTLs, Redo logs, password file and spfile after that we deinstalled the software from the server and reinstalled Oracle 11g on the server. Once the DB was started with new controlfile and spfile, we shutdown the db and copied back the files in the same location where it was earlier. Now, the db can started using pfile but we are facing two problem.
1. DB was started with compatible parameter set as 11.1.0.0.0. Can we downgrade it? I mean can we set it back to 10.2.0.0.0 and start the DB? (I doubt)
2. while opening the DB, it says that db MUST be started in UPGRADE mode. When I use that option, DB comes up but then how should I upgrade it? There is nothing to be upgraded.
SQL> startup pfile='C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\database\pfile_devoltpa.ora' ;
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1448054784 bytes
Fixed Size                  1376940 bytes
Variable Size             268438868 bytes
Database Buffers         1149239296 bytes
Redo Buffers               28999680 bytes
Database mounted.
ORA-01092: ORACLE instance terminated. Disconnection forced
ORA-00704: bootstrap process failure
ORA-39700: database must be opened with UPGRADE option
Process ID: 1672
Session ID: 9 Serial number: 3
SQL> connect / as sysdba
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup pfile='C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\database\pfile_devoltpa.ora' upgrade;
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1448054784 bytes
Fixed Size                  1376940 bytes
Variable Size             268438868 bytes
Database Buffers         1149239296 bytes
Redo Buffers               28999680 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL>

Kuljeet,
thanks for the reply. Our DB was in 9i first then upgraded to 11g (11.2.0.1) and on the top of that 11.2.0.3 patch was being applied. After which many of the DBMS_* packages were invalid and we were not able to run any of the utility from the server machine but could connect from remote. As the packages were invalid, we had to do this exercise. This backup is done after the patch and not before. I started the DB in upgrade mode and then tried to run DBUA but its erroring out with internal error.
ora-00600 internal error code arguments qcissetplsqlctx tzi initmetalink says that it timezone issue and we should run
select version from v$timezone_file;I ran this but it does not return anything which says that it could be timezone issue. As I can start the DB in upgrade mode, can I upgrade it to 11.2.0.3 from 11.2.0.1 (this is current version)?
-Onkar

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