ACFS Input/output error on OS kernel 3.10.0-957

October 14, 2019 Leave a comment

Problem:

My ACFS volume has intermittent problems, when I run ls command I get ls: cannot access sm: Input/output error and user/group ownership contains question marks.

[root@primrac1 GG_HOME]# ll
ls: cannot access ma: Input/output error
ls: cannot access sm: Input/output error
ls: cannot access deploy: Input/output error
total 64
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? deploy
drwx------ 2 oracle oinstall 65536 Sep 28 21:05 lost+found
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ma
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? sm

Reason:

Doc ID 2561145.1 mentions that kernel 3.10.0-957 changed behaviour of d_splice_alias interface which is used by ACFS driver.

My kernel is also the same:

[root@primrac1 GG_HOME]# uname -r
3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64

Solution:

Download and apply patch 29963428 on GI home.

[root@primrac1 29963428]# /u01/app/19.3.0/grid/OPatch/opatchauto apply -oh /u01/app/19.3.0/grid
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Patch Planner to check and request conflict patches

September 9, 2019 Leave a comment

Problem:

Recently, I was applying p29963428_194000ACFSRU_Linux-x86-64.zip on top of 19.4 GI home and got the following error:

==Following patches FAILED in analysis for apply:
 Patch: /u01/swtmp/29963428/29963428
 Log: /u01/app/19.3.0/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchauto/core/opatch/opatch2019-08-07_10-07-56AM_1.log
 Reason: Failed during Analysis: CheckConflictAgainstOracleHome Failed, [ Prerequisite Status: FAILED, Prerequisite output: 
 Summary of Conflict Analysis:
 There are no patches that can be applied now.
 Following patches have conflicts. Please contact Oracle Support and get the merged patch of the patches : 
 29851014, 29963428
 Conflicts/Supersets for each patch are:
 Patch : 29963428
 Bug Conflict with 29851014 Conflicting bugs are: 29039918, 27494830, 29338628, 29031452, 29264772, 29760083, 28855761 ... 
 After fixing the cause of failure Run opatchauto resume

Solution:

Oracle MOS note ID 1317012.1 describes steps how to check such conflicts and request conflict/merged patches in previous:

1. Run lsinventory from the target home:

[grid@rac1 ~]$ /u01/app/19.3.0/grid/OPatch/opatch lsinventory > GI_lsinventory.txt

2. Logon to support.oracle.com -> Click the “Patch and Updates” tab -> Enter the patch number you want to apply:

2. Click Analyze with OPatch…

3. Attach GI_lsinventory.txt file created in the first step and click “Analyze for Conflict”:

4. Wait for a while and you will see the result. According to it, patch 29963428 conflicts with my current patches:

From the same screen I can “Request Patch”.

5. After clicking “Request Patch” button I got the following error:

Click “See Details”:

The message actually means that fix for the same bug is already included in currently installed 19.4.0.0.190716ACFSRU.

So I don’t have to apply 29963428 patch. I wanted to share the steps with you , because the mentioned tool is really useful.

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