Prerequisite check CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables failed while applying July 2022 GI Release Update 19.16.0.0.220719, and the magic of opatchauto resume
Posted by FatDBA on August 8, 2022
Hi All,
Recently while applying the latest (July 2022) GI Release Update 19.16.0.0.220719 on GI+DB homes I’ve encountered an issue where the GI patching failed with an (expected) error ‘oracle.opatch.opatchsdk.OPatchException: Prerequisite check “CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables” failed’ and ended with ‘OPATCHAUTO-68061: The orchestration engine failed‘. Below pasted is what exactly happened …
[root@monkeybox patches]# /test/patch/dir/grid/OPatch/opatchauto apply /patchdir/july2022/34130714
OPatchauto session is initiated
.....
..........
Performing prepatch operations on CRS - bringing down CRS service on home /test/patch/dir/grid
Prepatch operation log file location: /testdir/app/grid/crsdata/monkeyboxcrsconfig/hapatch_xxxxxx.log
CRS service brought down successfully on home /test/dir/grid
Start applying binary patch on home /oracledir/app/oracle/product/19c/dbhome
Binary patch applied successfully on home /oracledir/app/oracle/product/19c/dbhome
Start applying binary patch on home /test/patch/dir/grid
Failed while applying binary patches on home /test/patch/dir/grid >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Execution of [OPatchAutoBinaryAction] patch action failed, check log for more details. Failures:
Patch Target : monkeybox->/test/patch/dir/grid Type[siha]
Details: [
---------------------------Patching Failed---------------------------------
Command execution failed during patching in home: /test/patch/dir/grid, host: monkeybox.
Command failed: /test/patch/dir/grid/OPatch/opatchauto apply /patchdir/july2022/34130714 -oh /test/patch/dir/grid -target_type has -binary -invPtrLoc /test/patch/dir/grid/oraInst.loc -jre /test/patch/dir/grid/OPatch/jre -persistresult /test/patch/dir/grid/opatchautocfg/db/sessioninfo/sessionresult_monkeybox_siha_1.ser -analyzedresult /test/patch/dir/grid/opatchautocfg/db/sessioninfo/sessionresult_analyze_monkeybox_siha_1.ser
Command failure output:
==Following patches FAILED in apply:
Patch: /patchdir/july2022/34130714/33575402
Log: /test/patch/dir/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchauto/core/opatch/xxxx.log
Reason: Failed during Patching: oracle.opatch.opatchsdk.OPatchException: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.
Patch: /patchdir/july2022/34130714/34133642
Log: /test/patch/dir/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchauto/core/opatch/xxxxxxxxx.log
Reason: Failed during Patching: oracle.opatch.opatchsdk.OPatchException: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
Patch: /patchdir/july2022/34130714/34139601
Log: /test/patch/dir/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchauto/core/opatch/xxxxxxxxx.log
Reason: Failed during Patching: oracle.opatch.opatchsdk.OPatchException: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
Patch: /patchdir/july2022/34130714/34160635
Log: /test/patch/dir/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchauto/core/opatch/xxxxxxxxx.log
Reason: Failed during Patching: oracle.opatch.opatchsdk.OPatchException: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
Patch: /patchdir/july2022/34130714/34318175
Log: /test/patch/dir/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchauto/core/opatch/xxxxxxxxx.log
Reason: Failed during Patching: oracle.opatch.opatchsdk.OPatchException: Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
After fixing the cause of failure Run opatchauto resume >>>>>>>>>>>>>
]
OPATCHAUTO-68061: The orchestration engine failed. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
OPATCHAUTO-68061: The orchestration engine failed with return code 1
OPATCHAUTO-68061: Check the log for more details.
OPatchAuto failed.
OPatchauto session completed at xxxxxxxxx
Time taken to complete the session 8 minutes, 50 seconds
This is a classic case where the patching failed as there were few executables/files from the HOME still active. Same you can verify in the standard logging directory cfgtoollogs for opatchauto for the patch failed.
[INFO] Prerequisite check "CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables" failed.
The details are:
Following active files/executables/libs are used by ORACLE_HOME :/test/dir/grid
/test/dir/grid/lib/libclntsh.so.19.1
/test/dir/grid/lib/libasmclntsh19.so
The easiest way to fix this issue is to find which opened process is using a file, a directory or a socket, and that you can do it using fuser command. The fuser command lists the process numbers of local processes that use the local or remote files specified by the File parameter. Let’s do it!
[grid@monkeybox ~]$
[grid@monkeybox ~]$ /sbin/fuser /test/dir/grid/lib/libclntsh.so.19.1
/test/dir/grid/lib/libclntsh.so.19.1: 18199m
[grid@monkeybox ~]$
[grid@monkeybox ~]$ /sbin/fuser /test/dir/grid/lib/libasmclntsh19.so
/test/dir/grid/lib/libasmclntsh19.so: 18199m
[grid@monkeybox ~]$
[grid@monkeybox ~]$
[grid@monkeybox ~]$
[grid@monkeybox ~]$ ps -ef|grep 18199
grid 18199 13587 0 09:34 pts/2 00:00:00 /test/dir/grid/perl/bin/perl -w -I /test/dir/grid/perl/lib/5.32.0 -I /test/dir/grid/perl/lib/site_perl/5.32.0 -I /test/dir/grid/lib -I /test/dir/grid/lib/asmcmd -I /test/dir/grid/rdbms/lib/asmcmd /test/dir/grid/bin/asmcmdcore
grid 29647 16974 0 10:11 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color=auto 13610
[grid@monkeybox ~]$
[grid@monkeybox ~]$
[grid@monkeybox ~]$ kill -9 18199
[grid@monkeybox ~]$
Now when we have killed those two opened files (libclntsh.so.19.1 and libasmclntsh19.so), lets resume the patch from the same spot where it has left last time before crashing. I mean opatchauto was able to patch DB HOME before it failed while applying it on GI HOME. So, this will resume from the same spot and will igore previous applied patches. So, will use ‘opatchauto resume’ instruction/command as this operation resumes a previous patching session.
opatchauto is a really powerful tool which even let you resume your patch even when the patching crashed in between by any reasons like server crash, reboot cases or even manual CTRL+C etc. The other two regular options are rollback and version.
[root@monkeybox patches]# /test/dir/grid/OPatch/opatchauto resume
OPatchauto session is initiated at xxxxxxxxx
Session log file is .....
Resuming existing session with id xxxxxx
....
.......
...............
OPatchAuto successful.
Patching is completed successfully. Please find the summary as follows:
OPatchauto session completed at xxxxxx
Time taken to complete the session 9 minutes, 12 seconds
[root@monkeybox patches]#
Hope It Helped!
Prashant Dixit
Tales From A Lazy Fat DBA 
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