Monthly Archives: October 2011

PRVF-5300: Failed to retrieve active version for CRS on this node when installing 11.2.0.2 DB on 11.2.0.3.0 Grid Infrastructure

I just played with 11.2.0.3.0 patchset on Linux x86_64 (in my testcase Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6) and tried to install a 11.2.0.2.0 database on it. It fails with: PRVF-5300: Failed to retrieve active version for CRS on this node The … Continue reading

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INFO: task blocked for more than 120 seconds.

When running some high workloads on UEK kernels on systems with a lot of memory you might see the following errors in /var/log/messages:   INFO: task bonnie++:31785 blocked for more than 120 seconds. “echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs” disables this message. … Continue reading

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11.2.0.3.0 is out

Since almost two week Oracle released Oracle database patchset 11.2.0.3.0.   I am a little bit late with this news. Martin Bach already  posted a lot of stuff about this so let me link to his guides: – Release Accouncement … Continue reading

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