Applying patch before software installation by -applyRU

Environment Configuration Details:

Operating System: Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.4 64 Bit
Oracle and Grid Software version: 21.0.0.0
RAC: YES

Note: Here, I am applying patch to GRID home before starting grid software GUI. You can use same method for RDBMS home as well. Refer the readme file for RDBMS patches to be applied.

Step 1:  Download any latest RU/RUR patches and apply the same.

It is highly recommended to apply patches while invoking installer and before starting GUI. Refer below steps to apply patch "Patch 33859395 - GI Release Update 21.6.0.0.220419" which is latest available patch. You can apply any latest available RU/RUR patch.

Download the patch from Oracle Support site and transfer the same to target server. Unzip the patch zip file by grid user only. 

Note: If the patch directory owner is root or any other user other than installer user(grid), then it won't allow you to apply patch even though the permissions are 777. It is mandatory to have grid infrastructure owner and its group to patch directory.

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c Patch Apr-2022]# ll

total 1415696

-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf     577909 Jun 22 19:50 'Oracle® Database Patch 33859395 - GI Release Update 21.6.0.0.220419.pdf'

-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 1449087073 Jun 22 20:32  p33859395_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c Patch Apr-2022]# cp -pr p33859395_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip  /u01/app/grid

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c Patch Apr-2022]# 

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c Patch Apr-2022]# pwd

/media/sf_Software/RAC Setup/Oracle 21c/Oracle 21c Patch Apr-2022

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c Patch Apr-2022]# 

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c Patch Apr-2022]# id

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c Patch Apr-2022]# 

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c Patch Apr-2022]# cd /u01/app/grid/

[root@rac1 grid]# ll

total 1415128

-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 1449087073 Jun 22 20:32 p33859395_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip

[root@rac1 grid]# 

[root@rac1 grid]# chown grid:oinstall p33859395_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip 

[root@rac1 grid]# ll

total 1415128

-rwxrwx--- 1 grid oinstall 1449087073 Jun 22 20:32 p33859395_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip

[root@rac1 grid]# 

[root@rac1 grid]# su -  grid

[grid@rac1 ~]$ 

[grid@rac1 ~]$ cd /u01/app/grid/

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ ll

total 1415128

-rwxrwx--- 1 grid oinstall 1449087073 Jun 22 20:32 p33859395_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ unzip p33859395_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip 

Archive:  p33859395_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip

   creating: 33859395/

   creating: 33859395/33853467/

   creating: 33859395/33853467/files/

   creating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/

   creating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/

   creating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/

   creating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/

  inflating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/mount.acfs  

  inflating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/fsck.acfs  

  inflating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/mkfs.acfs.bin  

  inflating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/acfssihamount  

  inflating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/advmutil.bin  

  inflating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/advmutil  

  inflating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/fsck.acfs.bin  

  inflating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/mkfs.acfs  

  inflating: 33859395/33853467/files/usm/install/cmds/bin/acfsdbg.bin  

.....

.....

  inflating: 33859395/33853705/files/racg/mesg/clsre.msb  

   creating: 33859395/33853705/files/racg/lib/

  inflating: 33859395/33853705/files/racg/lib/s0clsrmain.o  

  inflating: 33859395/33853705/files/racg/lib/s0clsrmdb.o  

  inflating: 33859395/33853705/files/racg/lib/s0clsreut.o  

  inflating: 33859395/33853705/files/racg/lib/s0clsrdmai.o  

  inflating: 33859395/33853705/files/racg/lib/ins_has.mk  

  inflating: 33859395/33853705/README.txt  

  inflating: 33859395/README.html    

  inflating: PatchSearch.xml         

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ ll

total 1415132

drwxr-x--- 9 grid oinstall        175 Apr  9 19:00 33859395

-rwxrwx--- 1 grid oinstall 1449087073 Jun 22 20:32 p33859395_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip

-rw-rw-r-- 1 grid oinstall       2416 Apr 19 17:01 PatchSearch.xml

[grid@rac1 grid]$ cd 33859395

[grid@rac1 33859395]$ ll

total 136

drwxr-x--- 4 grid oinstall     48 Apr  9 19:03 33693511

drwxr-x--- 4 grid oinstall     67 Apr  9 19:00 33843745

drwxr-x--- 5 grid oinstall     62 Apr  9 19:00 33853467

drwxr-x--- 5 grid oinstall     62 Apr  9 19:03 33853705

drwxr-x--- 4 grid oinstall     48 Apr  9 19:03 33856167

drwxr-x--- 4 grid oinstall     48 Apr  9 19:03 33911162

drwxr-x--- 2 grid oinstall   4096 Apr  9 19:00 automation

-rw-rw-r-- 1 grid oinstall   6546 Apr 10 00:50 bundle.xml

-rw-r--r-- 1 grid oinstall 124143 Apr 10 00:37 README.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 grid oinstall      0 Apr  9 19:00 README.txt

[grid@rac1 33859395]$ pwd

/u01/app/grid/33859395

[grid@rac1 33859395]$ cd /u01/app/21.0.0/grid/

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ ls -ltr gridSetup.sh 

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall 3294 Mar  8  2017 gridSetup.sh

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ ./gridSetup.sh -help

Usage:  gridSetup.sh [<flag>] [<option>]

Following are the possible flags: 

-help - display help. 

-silent - run in silent mode. The inputs can be a response file or a list of command line variable value pairs.

[-ignorePrereqFailure - ignore all prerequisite checks failures.]

[-lenientInstallMode - perform the best effort installation by automatically ignoring invalid data in input parameters.]

-responseFile - specify the complete path of the response file to use.

-logLevel - enable the log of messages up to the priority level provided in this argument. Valid options are: severe, warning, info, config, fine, finer, finest.

-executePrereqs | -executeConfigTools | -createGoldImage | -switchGridHome | -downgrade | -dryRunForUpgrade

-executePrereqs - execute the prerequisite checks only.

-executeConfigTools - execute the config tools for an installed home.

[-skipStackCheck - skip the stack status check.]

-createGoldImage - create a gold image from the current Oracle home.

-destinationLocation - specify the complete path to where the created gold image will be located.

[-exclFiles - specify the complete paths to the files to be excluded from the new gold image.]

-switchGridHome - change the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home path.

[-zeroDowntimeGIPatching - execute switch grid home in zero impact patching mode.]

[-skipDriverUpdate - execute zero impact patching without driver update.]

-downgrade - To downgrade Grid Infrastructure back to old home (to be used only in the case of incomplete upgrade).

-silent - run in silent mode. The inputs can be a response file or a list of command line variable value pairs.

[-ignorePrereqFailure - ignore all prerequisite checks failures.]

[-lenientInstallMode - perform the best effort installation by automatically ignoring invalid data in input parameters.]

[-configmethod - Specify the method to execute scripts as privileged user. If not specified then user will be instructed to run the scripts by logging in as privileged user. Valid options are: root,sudo.]

[-sudopath - Specify the complete path to the sudo program. This is an optional argument. This is needed if 'sudo' is specified for the configmethod and 'sudo' program is not present in the default path.]

[-sudousername - Specify the name of sudoer.]

-dryRunForUpgrade  - To perform a dry run of the Grid Infrastructure Upgrade process.

-debug - run in debug mode.

-waitForCompletion - wait for the completion of the installation, instead of spawning the installer and returning the console prompt.

-noconfig - do not execute the config tools.

-noconsole - suppress the display of messages in the console. The console is not allocated.

-ignoreInternalDriverError - ignore any internal driver errors.

-noCopy - perform the configuration without copying the software on to the remote nodes. Applicable only for Real Application Cluster(RAC) installs.

-applyRU - apply release update to the Oracle home.

-applyOneOffs - apply one-off patch to the Oracle home. Multiple one-off patches can be passed as a comma separated list of locations.

Step 2:  Download required opatch setup and replace the existing opatch by new opatch.

Before applying patch, ensure that the current opatch version is the required one. If not then you need to refer the readme file and download the required or latest opatch version and then proceed for applying the patch.

Open the patch readme file and search "You must use the OPatch utility version"  in section "OPatch Utility Information". Click on 6880880 and select your appropriate OS and opatch version.

Once you download the required opatch then you need to take backup of current opatch folder and replace the same using below method.

[grid@rac1 grid]$ ls -ld OPatch/

drwxr-xr-x 13 grid oinstall 303 Jul 28  2021 OPatch/

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ mv OPatch/ OPatch_bkp

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c]# pwd

/media/sf_Software/RAC Setup/Oracle 21c

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c]# cp -pr p6880880_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip  /u01/app/21.0.0/grid/

[root@rac1 Oracle 21c]# cd /u01/app/21.0.0/grid/

[root@rac1 grid]# 

[root@rac1 grid]# chown grid:oinstall p6880880_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip

[root@rac1 grid]# 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ pwd

/u01/app/21.0.0/grid

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ id

uid=1001(grid) gid=2000(oinstall) groups=2000(oinstall),2100(asmadmin),2200(dba),2300(oper),2400(asmdba),2500(asmoper)

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ unzip p

p6880880_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip  plsql/                            pylib/                            

perl/                             precomp/                          python/                           

[grid@rac1 grid]$ pwd

/u01/app/21.0.0/grid

[grid@rac1 grid]$ unzip p

p6880880_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip  plsql/                            pylib/                            

perl/                             precomp/                          python/                           

[grid@rac1 grid]$ unzip p6880880_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip 

Archive:  p6880880_210000_Linux-x86-64.zip

   creating: OPatch/

  inflating: OPatch/README.txt       

  inflating: OPatch/datapatch        

  inflating: OPatch/emdpatch.pl      

  inflating: OPatch/operr_readme.txt  

   creating: OPatch/scripts/

  inflating: OPatch/scripts/opatch_wls.bat  

  inflating: OPatch/scripts/opatch_jvm_discovery  

  inflating: OPatch/scripts/viewAliasInfo.sh  

  inflating: OPatch/scripts/opatch_jvm_discovery.bat  

  inflating: OPatch/scripts/viewAliasInfo.cmd  

  inflating: OPatch/scripts/opatch_wls  

  inflating: OPatch/datapatch.bat    

  inflating: OPatch/opatch           

   creating: OPatch/private/

  inflating: OPatch/private/commons-compress-1.21.jar  

   creating: OPatch/ocm/

   creating: OPatch/ocm/lib/

   creating: OPatch/ocm/bin/

   creating: OPatch/ocm/doc/

 extracting: OPatch/ocm/generic.zip  

 extracting: OPatch/version.txt      

   creating: OPatch/jlib/

  inflating: OPatch/jlib/opatchsdk.jar  

  inflating: OPatch/jlib/oracle.opatch.classpath.windows.ja

  ....

  ...

     creating: OPatch/modules/oracle.rsa/

  inflating: OPatch/modules/oracle.rsa/cryptoj.jar  

  inflating: OPatch/modules/com.oracle.glcm.patch.opatch-common-api-schema_13.9.5.0.jar  

  inflating: OPatch/modules/com.sun.xml.bind.jaxb-xjc.jar  

  inflating: OPatch/modules/com.oracle.glcm.patch.opatch-common-api-interfaces_13.9.5.0.jar  

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ ls -ld OPatch

drwxr-x--- 15 grid oinstall 4096 Apr 13 23:10 OPatch

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ cd OPatch

[grid@rac1 OPatch]$ 

[grid@rac1 OPatch]$ 

[grid@rac1 OPatch]$ ls -ltr

total 152

drwxr-x--- 6 grid oinstall   198 Mar 23 14:39 jre

-rw-r----- 1 grid oinstall    27 Apr 13 23:04 version.txt

drwxr-x--- 2 grid oinstall   155 Apr 13 23:04 scripts

-rw-r----- 1 grid oinstall  2977 Apr 13 23:04 README.txt

drwxr-xr-x 2 grid oinstall    39 Apr 13 23:04 private

-rw-r----- 1 grid oinstall  3177 Apr 13 23:04 operr_readme.txt

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall  4218 Apr 13 23:04 operr.bat

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall  3159 Apr 13 23:04 operr

-rw-r----- 1 grid oinstall  2551 Apr 13 23:04 opatch.pl

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall  4290 Apr 13 23:04 opatch_env.sh

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall 16554 Apr 13 23:04 opatch.bat

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall 49873 Apr 13 23:04 opatch

drwxr-x--- 5 grid oinstall    58 Apr 13 23:04 ocm

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall 23550 Apr 13 23:04 emdpatch.pl

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall   627 Apr 13 23:04 datapatch.bat

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall   589 Apr 13 23:04 datapatch

drwxr-x--- 2 grid oinstall    31 Apr 13 23:04 config

drwxr-x--- 4 grid oinstall    62 Apr 13 23:04 opatchprereqs

drwxr-x--- 2 grid oinstall   320 Apr 13 23:04 jlib

drwxr-x--- 3 grid oinstall    24 Apr 13 23:10 plugins

drwxr-x--- 3 grid oinstall    21 Apr 13 23:10 oracle_common

drwxr-x--- 2 grid oinstall    19 Apr 13 23:10 oplan

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall   393 Apr 13 23:10 opatchauto.cmd

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall  1763 Apr 13 23:10 opatchauto

drwxr-x--- 8 grid oinstall  4096 Apr 13 23:10 modules

drwxr-x--- 2 grid oinstall    90 Apr 13 23:10 docs

drwxr-x--- 7 grid oinstall    83 Apr 13 23:10 auto

[grid@rac1 OPatch]$ cat version.txt

OPATCH_VERSION:12.2.0.1.30

[grid@rac1 OPatch]$ 

[grid@rac1 ~]$ cd /u01/app/21.0.0/grid

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ ll gridSetup.sh 

-rwxr-x--- 1 grid oinstall 3294 Mar  8  2017 gridSetup.sh

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

[grid@rac1 grid]$ id

uid=1001(grid) gid=2000(oinstall) groups=2000(oinstall),2100(asmadmin),2200(dba),2300(oper),2400(asmdba),2500(asmoper)

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

Step 3:  Apply the patch by applyRU command

[grid@rac1 grid]$ ./gridSetup.sh -applyRU /u01/app/grid/33859395

ERROR: Unable to verify the graphical display setup. This application requires X display. Make sure that xdpyinfo exist under PATH variable.

Preparing the home to patch...

Applying the patch /u01/app/grid/33859395...

Successfully applied the patch.

The log can be found at: /tmp/GridSetupActions2022-06-24_12-59-08PM/installerPatchActions_2022-06-24_12-59-08PM.log

No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this program performed an operation which requires it.

[grid@rac1 grid]$ 

Note: You can apply multiple patches one by one by "-applyRU" command. If GUI screen will appear then you can cancel the GUI and proceed for another patch and so on.

Go to GRID_HOME and execute gridSetup.sh to start the setup wizard without -applyRU command or if you already canceled the GUI..

 

You have successfully applied the patch before software installation. 

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