OPatchauto fails: CLSRSC-180: An error occurred while executing the command ‘/bin/rpm -qf /sbin/init’

Problem:

During applying ACFS patch on top of GI home, I received the following error:

Command failure output:
...
2024/03/08 19:31:03 CLSRSC-180: An error occurred while executing the command '/bin/rpm -qf /sbin/init'

After fixing the cause of failure Run opatchauto resume

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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 Mar  8 19:31:04 2024
Time taken to complete the session 3 minutes, 38 seconds

 opatchauto failed with error code 42

Troubleshooting:

I attempted to manually execute the command that failed, and it returned a helpful error message:

[root@rac1 tmp]# /bin/rpm -qf /sbin/init
error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 5003/139974823143296 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library
error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->failchk: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db5 -  (-30973)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
...

Solution:

I have a solution for this type of error in another post. Let’s solve it again:

[root@rac1 tmp]# rpm  --rebuilddb

Rerun the failing command to make sure it was resolved:

[root@rac1 tmp]# /bin/rpm -qf /sbin/init
systemd-239-78.0.3.el8.x86_64

If you encountered an error during patching, you can resume opatchauto at this point:

[root@rac1 tmp]# /u01/app/19.3.0/grid/OPatch/opatchauto resume

--------------------------------Summary--------------------------------

Patching is completed successfully. Please find the summary as follows:

Host:rac1
CRS Home:/u01/app/19.3.0/grid
Version:19.0.0.0.0
Summary:

==Following patches were SUCCESSFULLY applied:

Patch: /tmp/36114443/36114443
Log: /u01/app/19.3.0/grid/cfgtoollogs/opatchauto/core/opatch/opatch2024-03-08_19-29-48PM_1.log

Good luck, as always!