OPatch Apply of GI PSU 12.1.0.2.161018 fails

Overview

OPatch Analysis of GI PSU 12.1.0.2.161018 fails with message:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2017.Jan.06 06:33:25 AEDT"

at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:337)

at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiCompsXMLHandler$OiiiInstallCompElementHandler.onStart(OiiiCompsXMLHandler.java:923)

Status

Work-around Available

References

• OPatch/OPatchauto/DBCA throws “Unparseable date” error for TZ entries like AEST in comps.xml (Doc ID 2178555.1)

Investigation

Patch Apply Fails

While I was attempting to apply the OPatch Apply of GI PSU 12.1.0.2.161018 with the following command (as described in 13 Downgrade GORDON to OEL6U5):

/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid/OPatch/opatch lsinventory -invPtrLoc /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid/oraInst.loc -oh /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid

I got the following messages:

Execution of [OracleHomeLSInventoryGrepAction] patch action failed, check log for more details. Failures: Patch Target : gordon->/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid Type[siha] Details: [ ---------------------------Patching Failed--------------------------------- Command execution failed during patching in home: /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid, host: gordon. Command failed: /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid/OPatch/opatch lsinventory -invPtrLoc /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid/oraInst.loc -oh /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid | grep 21436941 Command failure output: After fixing the cause of failure Run opatchauto resume with session id "1P81" ] 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 Fri Jan 6 16:30:46 2017 Time taken to complete the session 12 minutes, 28 seconds opatchauto failed with error code 42

Review Log Messages

The cmd.log showed the following messages:

Oracle Home : /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid Central Inventory : /opt/app/oraInventory from : /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid/oraInst.loc OPatch version : 12.2.0.1.8 OUI version : 12.1.0.2.0 Log file location : /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2017-01-09_17-06-00PM_1.log sInstallTime = >2017.Jan.06 06:33:25 AEDT< java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "2017.Jan.06 06:33:25 AEDT" at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:337) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiCompsXMLHandler$OiiiInstallCompElementHandler.onStart(OiiiCompsXMLHandler.java:923) at oracle.sysman.oix.oixs.OixsElementHandler.startElement(OixsElementHandler.java:140) at oracle.sysman.oix.oixs.OixsDefaultHandler.startElement(OixsDefaultHandler.java:109) at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLContentHandler.startElement(XMLContentHandler.java:182) at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseElement(NonValidatingParser.java:1635) at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseRootElement(NonValidatingParser.java:458) at oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingParser.java:404) at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:244) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallXMLReader.readComps(OiiiInstallXMLReader.java:324) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallXMLReader.readComps(OiiiInstallXMLReader.java:232) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiInstallInventory.getCompOHListElement(OiiiInstallInventory.java:2307) at oracle.sysman.oii.oiii.OiiiAreaInventory.getAllCompsVect(OiiiAreaInventory.java:1057) at oracle.opatch.ipm.RawInventory.loadRawInventory(RawInventory.java:217) at oracle.opatch.ipm.RawInventory.init(RawInventory.java:171) at oracle.opatch.ipm.RawInventory.getInstance(RawInventory.java:87) at oracle.opatch.ipm.IPMReadServices.getRawInventory(IPMReadServices.java:149) at oracle.opatch.ipm.IPMReadServices.loadInventory(IPMReadServices.java:1031) at oracle.opatch.LsInventorySession.process(LsInventorySession.java:317) at oracle.opatch.OPatchSession.process(OPatchSession.java:2058) at oracle.opatch.OPatch.process(OPatch.java:808) at oracle.opatch.OPatch.main(OPatch.java:858)

Work-around

After opening a service request with Oracle Support, I was directed to OPatch/OPatchauto/DBCA throws “Unparseable date” error for TZ entries like AEST in comps.xml (Doc ID 2178555.1) which said:

This occurs due to unpublished BUG 24373668

To resolved the issue with opatch lsinventory, I had to use:

$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lsinventory -jre $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/jre

This showed that the PSU was successfully applied.